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She looked rather than spoke
forgiveness as he held her and showered them on her.
"Before Heaven," I heard him whisper into her ear, "with all my
power as a lawyer I will free you from this."
Gently Dr. Leslie pushed him aside and felt her pulse as she
dropped limply into the only easy chair in the laboratory.
"O'Connor," he said at length, "all the evidence that we really
have hangs on an invisible thread of quartz a mile away. If
Professor Kennedy agrees, let us forget what has happened here to-
night. I will direct my jury to bring in a verdict of suicide.
Collins, take good care of her." He leaned over and whispered so
she could not hear. "I wouldn't promise her six weeks otherwise."
I could not help feeling deeply moved as the newly reunited
Collinses left the laboratory together. Even the bluff deputy,
O'Connor, was touched by it and under the circumstances did what
seemed to him his higher duty with a tact of which I had believed
him scarcely capable. Whatever the ethics of the case, he left it
entirely to Dr.


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