After a time she deftly appealed to
him to know if he could not help her
discover vthe truth she tactfully main
tained even in face of the evidence that
Shurtliff had given. And she did this
In such an adroit way that Shurtliff
became convinced that she did not con
nect him with any willful deception,
and that she believed that he was de
luded himself and occupied the posi
tion of an innocent abettor. And Shurt
liff, in his strange, old, self-contained
way, finally grew to like Helen Illing
worth exceedingly. Indeed he started
in his work with natural antagonism
to Colonel Bllngworth. and when he
sensed, as he very soon did, the dlf
ference that had arisen between father
and daughter, he espoused the cause of
the latter. He was the kind of a man
who had to devote himself to some
body. He began to wonder if there
was any way to secure the girl's hap
piness without betraying the elder
Meade.
