Mr. van Wersch, whom I mentioned above, and who shared imprisonment with me at Bilsen, had a rather disagreeable adventure a few days afterwards, when he had the misfortune of being mistaken for the war-correspondent of De Tijd.Abiding, doth abide most firmly fixed,
Director
"Of course they will. But there are viler crimes than the theft of diamonds. There is the conspiracy to rob a good man of his good name, to make the lives of that man and the girl he is going to marry dark for the sake of a passing caprice. I tell you this has been done, and a murder has been committed in the doing of it. And I am going to get to the bottom of the foul tangle."Looks bad, this-here, dont it? He grinned.Bruce held up his hand for silence."Miss Lawrence meant well," Balmayne said, "but really there was no occasion to send for you at all. A mere accident."