"You won't listen to this nonsense, Sir Rowland!" "If you are innocent, boy," said the knight, controlling his emotion; "you have nothing to apprehend. Rubbishy novels and pernicious rascals. . “So Mr. ‘I thought, you see, that we might as well enter by the same way our intruder had done. So the charge was dismissed. She pulled away from him, placing her fingers on his lips for a moment. Sheppard staggered forward. It was not only Leonardo who had instilled in her this distrust of men. How different were his present feelings compared with those he had experienced on quitting it.