"It is for that end I am working, Miss Herndon," returned Yardley. "When the secret is run to earth, take my word for it, his lordship's fate will be revealed. As yet we are far from the track of the murderer, for there is no proof against the man in Newgate, it is all against Lord Davanant himself; and even if we could produce him at this minute, he would not stand cleared, for, remember, it is to him the World's Finger points as the guilty man...