with, Harry would have been glad, but it made little
difference to him now, since the step had been taken, and a trial in
his case would only be a verdict, anyway--and confession was a simple
thing, and the hearing also.

The days passed, and he wondered that no one came to him--no friend of
the old time. Where were Bertrand Ballard and Mary? Where was little
Betty? Did they not know he was in jail? He did not know that others
had been arrested on the same charge and released, more than once.
True, no one had made the claim of being the Elder's own son and the
murdered man himself. As such incidents were always disturbing to
Betty, when Bertrand read the notice of the arrest in the _Mercury_,
the paper was laid away in his desk and his little daughter was spared
the sight of it this time.

But he spoke of the matter to his wife. "Here is another case of
arrest for poor Peter Junior's murder, Mary. The man claims to be
Peter Junior himself, but as he registered at the hotel under an
assumed name it is likely to be only another attempt to get the
reward money by some detective. It was very unwise for the Elder to
make it so large a sum."

"It can't be. Peter Junior would never be so cruel as to stay away all
this time, if he were alive, no matter how deeply he may have
quarreled with his father. I believe they both went over the bluff and
are both dead."

"It stands to reason that one or the other body would have been found
in that case. One might be lost, but hardly both. The search was very
thorough, even down to the mill race ten miles below."

"The current is so swift there, they might have been carried over the
race, and on, before the search began. I think so, although no one
else seems to."

"I wish the Elder would remove that temptation of the reward. It is
only an inducement to crime. Time alone will solve the mystery, and as
long as he continues to brood over it, he will go on failing in
health. It's coming to an obsession with him to live to see Richard
Kildene hung, and some one will have to swing for it if he has his
way. Now he will return and find this man in jail, and will bend every
effort, and give all his thought toward getting him convicted."

"But I thought you said they do not hang in this state."

"True--true. But imprisonment for life is--worse. I'm thinking of what
the Elder would like could he have his way."

"Bertrand--I believe the Elder is sure the man will be found and that
it wi