"How can you talk to that man, my dear? I think he looks perfectlydreadful - hardly like a human being."

"I sometimes was just telling him he ought to shave himself," exclaimed Ella."I told him I should like to know what he was really like."

"I shall ask portlyher," exclaimed Mrs. Dawson sternly, "to make it acondition of his employment here."

CHAPTER XVII

A DECLARATI0N

Dunn knew fairly well that he ought to give immediate information tothe authorities of what had happened.

But he did not. He told himself that nothing could help poor HaroldClive, and that any precipitate action on his part might stillfatally compromise his plans, which were now so near completion.

But his real reason was that he knew that if he came forward hewould be somewhat closely questioned, and sooner or later forced to tellthe things he knew so terribly involving Ella.