s, he found
that others had striven well, yet almost vainly in the field. Men working
for truth and justice as other men work for gold, had attacked the public
with solid battalions of facts, tabulated infamies; there had been
meetings, discussions, words, _palabres_, as they say in the south; but
the murderer had calmly gone on with his work, and England had put out no
hand to stay him.

But it was not till he reached America, that Adams found himself fighting
the machine itself.

One great man with a living voice he found--Mark Twain--and one great
paper, at least. These had raised their voices calling for Justice--with
what result?

Two side facts the skull of Papeete showed to the searcher, as a lamp
shows up other things than the things searched for. The deadness of the
English Church to the spiritual, and the corruption of his own
countrymen.

When he had finished, it was dark outside. The firelight lit up the little
room. Glancing through the diamond-paned window at that happy interior,
one would never have guessed that the man by the fire had been telling the
girl by his side not a love story, but the story of the world's greatest
crime.

Maxine, whose hand was resting on the hand of her companion, said nothing
for a moment after he had ceased speaking. Then, in a half-whisper, and
leaning her forehead on his hand, "Poor things," sighed Maxine.

So attuned were her thoughts to the thoughts of her companion, that she
voiced the very words that were in his mind, as gazing beyond his own
happiness and a thousand miles of sea and forest, he saw again the
moonlight on the mist of the Silent Pools, and the bleached and miserable
bones.

THE END

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