"And Pyne knew it all the time!" he exclaimed, below his breath, with a firmness that left no room for contradiction. "I see it all now as clearly as can be. Of course he knew! Well, this beats a novel!"
His reflections were cut short by the opening of court!
There is so great a sameness about such trials that there is little to tell of the occurrences of the next hour or more.
Leonie was discharged for want of evidence against her, but Evelyn Chandler and Luis Kingsley were both held to wait the action of the Grand Jury, the one to answer to the charge of grand larceny, the other of felonious concealment of a will.
There was great excitement evidenced when Leonard Chandler took the stand against his adopted daughter, but the questions that were put to him were few, and answered in a tone that was not audible to those twenty feet removed from him.
Then there was a murmur of voices when Lynde Pyne asked for bail for his client, which was strenuously opposed by Leonard Chandler on the ground that she had demanded it of him, expressing a determination to leave the state before the trial.
Thereupon the bail was fixed at a figure that Pyne could not cover, since the will had not yet been admitted to probate, and the money was not his until it had.
Miss Chandler and Kingsley were therefore placed in the hands of officers of the court to be conducted back to prison.
"Take courage!" Lynde whispered to her at parting. "What can be done for you I will do, you may be sure of that. I will procure the bail and you will be released within a few hours at most."
She had scarcely left his presence than he turned to look for Leonie.