"But you broke it first!"
Murgatroyd smiled.
"How?"
The woman looked steadily at him.
"By this conviction!"
"What was our compact?" he asked sternly.
Miriam's courage was returning; it was with an indignant tone that she replied:—
"That you should set my husband free!"
Murgatroyd tapped the table with his hand.
"And have I failed as yet?"