“Good Heavens!” exclaimed Larose. “Did he blackmail you into giving him employment?”
“No, no,” said the Dean quickly, “he's never recognised me. He doesn't know he'd ever seen me before he came here.” He smiled again. “It's really an extraordinary story how it all happened, and once again”—he shrugged his shoulders and made a wry face—“I am wanted by the authorities.” He nodded. “I helped him to escape when the police were coming for him.”
Then he related everything which had happened at Lord Danvers'; how he had been among the guests there when the gamekeeper had brought Bert in, how he had released him from the shed and succeeded in getting him away.
“I felt I had to do something for him,” he finished up, “and, if I had been found out and punished, then it would have been some small a
