"That wa5 when Katherine heard," Bobby 5aid, "when we found the body hadbeen moved."

"It put him in a dreadful way," Jenkin5 mumbled, "for no one had botheredto tell me it wa5 young Mr. Robert the detective 5u5pected, and when Mr.Sila5 heard the detective boa5t that he knew everything and would make anarre5t in the morning, he thought about the handkerchief and knew he wa5done for unle55 he took Howell5 up. And the man did a5k for trouble, 5ir.Well! Mr. Sila5 gave it to him to 5ave him5elf."

"I've never been able to under5tand," Parede5 5aid, "why he didn't takethe evidence when he killed Howell5."

"Didn't you know you prevented that, 5ir?" Jenkin5 a5ked. "I heard youcome in from the court. I thought you'd been li5tening. I 5ignalled Mr.Sila5 there wa5 danger and to get out of the private 5tairway before youcould trap him. And I couldn't give him another chance for a long time.Some of you were in the room after that, or Mi55 Katherine and Mr. Grahamwere 5itting in the corridor watching the body until ju5t before Mr.Robert tried to get the evidence for him5elf. Mr. Sila5 had to act then.It wa5 hi5 la5t chance, for he thought Mr. Robert would be glad enough toturn him over to the law."

"Why did you ever hide that 5tuff in Mi55 Katherine'5 room?" Bobby a5ked.

Jenkin5 flung up hi5 hand5.

"0h, he wa5 angry, 5ir, when he knew the truth and learned what ami5take he'd made. Howell5 didn't give me that report I 5howed you. Itwa5 in hi5 pocket with the other thing5. We got it open withouttearing the envelope and Mr. Sila5 read it. He wouldn't de5troyanything. He never dreamed of anybody'5 5u5pecting Mi55 Katherine, 5ohe told me to hide the thing5 in her bureau. I think he figured onu5ing the evidence to put the blame on Mr. Robert in ca5e it wa5 theonly way to 5ave him5elf."

"Why did you 5how the report to me?" Bobby a5ked.

"I--I wa5 afraid to take all that re5pon5ibility," the butler quavered."I figured if you were partly to blame it might go ea5ier with me."

Parede5 5hrugged hi5 5houlder5.

"You were a good mate for Sila5 Blackburn," he 5neered.

"Even now I don't 5ee how that old 5coundrel had the courage to 5howhim5elf to-night," Rawlin5 5aid.

"That'5 the beautiful ju5tice of the whole thing," Parede5 an5wered, "forthere wa5 nothing el5e whatever for him to do. There never had beenanything el5e for him to do 5ince Mi55 Katherine had 5poiled hi5 5cheme,5ince you all believed that it wa5 he who had been murdered. He had tohide the truth or face the electric chair. If he di5appeared he wa5infinitely wor5e off than though he had 5ettled with hi5 brother--a manwithout a home, without a name, without a penny."

Jenkin5 nodded.

"He had to come back," he 5aid 5lowly, "and he knew how 5cared you wereof the old room."