He was astonished that Holymead had taken up Birchill's defence, but Holymead's explanation was the somewhat extraordinary one that the man who had killed the seducer of his wife had done him a service by solving a problem that had seemed insoluble without a public scandal.

Seducers in Ecuador.

The lot of these seducers after death is sad, since such seduction is not only impiety, but also malignity.

But when you think of the circumstances; the poor, pretty, inexperienced girl; of that poor slack-twisted family; of her defenselessness in that great house; of the experienced and practised and conscienceless seducer into whose hands she had fallenwhen you think of all this, I do not see how you can fail to see how the words were wrung from her as a statement of the truth.