've got it--at last!
Breton--where's the nearest telegraph office? Hawes? Straight down this
valley? Then, here's for it! Look after things till I'm back, or, when
the police come, join me there. I shall catch the first train to town,
anyhow, after wiring."

"But--what are you after, Spargo?" exclaimed Breton. "Stop! What on
earth----"

But Spargo had closed the door and was running for all he was worth
down the valley. Three quarters of an hour later he startled a quiet
and peaceful telegraphist by darting, breathless and dirty, into a
sleepy country post office, snatching a telegraph form and scribbling
down a message in shaky handwriting:--

_Rathbury, New Scotland Yard, London.
Arrest Jane Baylis at once for murder of John Maitland.
Coming straight to town with full evidence.

Frank Spargo_.

Then Spargo dropped on the office bench, and while the wondering
operator set the wires ticking, strove to get his breath, utterly spent
in his mad race across the heather. And when it was got he set out
again--to find the station.

Some days later, Spargo, having seen Stephen Aylmore walk out of the
Bow Street dock, cleared of the charge against him, and in a fair way
of being cleared of the affair of twenty years before, found himself in
a very quiet corner of the Court holding the hand of Jessie Aylmore,
who, he discovered, was saying things to him which he scarcely
comprehended. There was nobody near them and the girl spoke freely and
warmly.

"But you will come--you will come today--and be properly thanked," she
said. "You will--won't you?"

Spargo allowed himself to retain possession of the hand. Also he took a
straight look into Jessie Aylmore's eyes.

"I don't want thanks," he said. "It was all a lot of luck. And if I
come--today--it will be to see--just you!"

Jessie Aylmore looked down at the two hands.

"I think," she whispered, "I think that is what I really meant!"

THE END

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