SITTING before the window again, Richard Polland had a season of gripping fear. And then, as he grew used to his surroundings, some of his native courage returned to him.
He began to ridicule himself for having felt any fear at all, save fear that he had made a fool of himself through his temper. He would not hide like a rat in a hole, he told himself. Until Judge Samble returned, he would remain away from James Cranton, but he would not hide.
Although he had registered under an assumed name, he remembered with a shock that he had centered his mind upon writing his new name, so that he had given his address as Denver, Colorado.
However, that might not injure him, Thousands of persons registered from Denver during the year, and it was unlikely that James Cranton would have every man so r
