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214 first. If I hadn't seen the things and identified them as hers'

'The things! You did not say there was anything else besides the hat. What else was there?'

'The jacket she went away in.'

'You are sure it was hers?'

'Yes.'

'You could swear to both hat and jacket?'

'Yes.'

Granville leapt to his feet.

'Who throw their things into the water'—he asked, in strange excitement, for him—'the people who mean to sink or the people who mean to swim—or the people who mean to stay on the bank?'

Alfred stared at him blankly. Gradually the light dawned upon him that had entered Granville's quicker intelligence in a flash.

'What do you mean?' whispered Alfred; and, in a moment, his voice and his limbs were trembling.

'Nothing very obscure,' replied Granville, with a touch of contempt, which, even then, he could not manage to conceal (Alfred's slow