“Not better—differently.” She smiled back at him, then grew extremely grave.
“Tony, are we going to let him do it?’
“What? Give himself up? Now, Cliona, I don’t see what else he can do. If he had been content to leave the girl where he found her, go quietly home and keep still afterward, I doubt if he could have been connected with the mur-the death of this man Marco. No one would have paid any attention to her story, even if she had the sense to tell it.
“But as it is, and having removed the girl from her father’s house, and having been recognized by that conductor and very likely several other people, there is no possibility of his not being connected with it. No one who knows Colin is ever going to believe that he meant to kill the man, and the provocation was probably greate
