CHAPTER XVII

At the Roadhouse (concluded) § I “The reason I am so hopelessly in the power of Head Centre,” said Madame Czerna, “is that my husband, who died, was sentenced for a crime which he never committed. Three months after our marriage he was sent to Devil’s Island.” “Good God!” Stopford exclaimed. “I succeeded,” the tense voice went on, “after two years of trying, in getting the French authorities to consent to allow me to go out to Cayenne. This of course by their law made me a convict …