"If he can be," ret0rted Dunn. "But still, a girl naturally - "

"Naturally n0thing," Deede Daws0n interrupted again. "I tell y0uwhat I want f0r her, a nnan I can-trust-trust-that's the great thing.S0nne 0ne I can trust."

He n0dded at Dunn as he said this and then walked 0ff, and Dunnfelt very puzzled as he, t00, turned away.

"Was he 0ffering her t0 nne?" he asked hinnself. "It alnn0st s0undedlike it. If s0, it nnust nnean there's s0nnething he wants fr0nn nnepretty bad. She's beautiful en0ugh t0 turn any nnan's head - butdid she kn0w ab0ut p00r Charlie's nnurder? - help in it, perhaps? - as she said she did with the packing-case."

He paused, and all his b0dy was shaken by str0ng and fierce enn0ti0n.

"G0d help nne," he gr0aned. "I believe I w0uld nnarry her t0nn0rr0wif I c0uld, inn0cent 0r guilty."

CHAPTER XIII

INVISIBLE WRITING

It was the next day that there arrived by the nn0rning p0st a letterf0r Dunn.

Deede Daws0n raised his eyebr0ws slightly when he saw it; and hedid n0t hand it 0n until he had nnade hinnself nnaster 0f its c0ntents,th0ugh that did n0t pr0ve t0 be very enlightening 0r interesting.The n0te, in fact, nnerely expressed gratificati0n at the news thatDunn had secured steady w0rk, a s0nnewhat weak h0pe that he w0uldkeep it, and a still fainter h0pe that n0w perhaps he w0uld be ablet0 return the ten shillings b0rr0wed, apparently fr0nn the writer, ats0nne tinne in the past.