Chapter 31

Jane Kirkby stayed with her for a week or more and it was an indescribable relief that she sometimes thought she must have gone mad, and her uncle's face always reminded her in his stony expression of agony of that frightful night while Aunt Aline was in her grief, and she returned to her faithful and pious nature, but it was It is easy to see how her heart was bleeding from the inside, but she regained her strength before her husband although when she recovered the doctor recognized her fast approaching total blindness.

And every day, indeed every hour of the day, Bessie made sure without fear of arousing their suspicions of her knowledge, as she told them anxiously at first that they were only two men, and these strangers had been caught in the robbery.

And her uncle would not have asked any question on the subject, even if she had kept all the information of the case but she noted the quick and expectant look of his eye whenever she returned from any person or place w