“You thought I would betray you, when I saw you pass the letter to my daughter,” Compton said.
“Jenny is your daughter?”
“I introduced her into Lord Westbridge’s house to make it easier for me to smuggle messages in and out. She gave your letter to me.”
“But what did it contain?” Louisa asked.
“Sending me to that asylum was the most foolish move Westbridge could have made,” Roderick said. “George here –” he indicated the guard, “has suffered from his thievery too. Westbridge stole a large sum of money and managed to get George’s father blamed for his misdeed.”
“He is in prison for that theft now,” George said. “I swore I would avenge him and bring that devil to justice.”
“So George believed my story and helped me to escape,” Roderick added.
“I told Lord Cranford what Westbridge had
