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38 BLACK SHEEP." But how can he discover it?" said Routh;his face darkened, and he dropped his voice still" lower. Harriet, have you forgotten that if therebe danger from him, there is also the means ofturning that danger on himself? Have you forgottenthatIcan direct suspicion against himtenfold stronger than any that can arise againstGS.Sme.She shivered,ancl closed her eyes again. " No,Ihave not forgotten," she said; " but O, Stewart,it is an awful thing to contemplate — a horribleexpedient.""Yet y-ou arranged it with a good deal ofcomposure, and said very little about its beinghorrible at the time," said Routh, coarsely. "Ihope you are not going to be afflicted with misplacedand ill-timed scruples now. It'srather latein the day, you know, and you'll have to choose,inthat case, between Dallas and me."She made him no answer." The thingis justthis," he " continued; Dallascannot come to any serious grief,Iam convinced;but,ifthe occasion arises, he must be letcome to whatever grief there may be — a trial and