'Thank you, thank you,' said Cunningham Haze, looking it over. 'Ah--I perceive it is not what I expected to see. Mr. Somerset was mistaken.'
When the chief constable had left the house, Captain De Stancy shut the door and drew out the original photograph. As he looked at the transcript of Dare's features he was moved by a painful agitation, till recalling himself to the present, he carefully put the portrait into the fire.
During the following days Captain De Stancy's manner on the roads, in the streets, and at barracks, was that of Crusoe after seeing the print of a man's foot on the sand.