"Then bring in the cable you received just as Mr. Grodman entered the house." Templeton went back into the outer room and brought back the cablegram that had been lying on the Minister's writing-table when Grodman came in. The Home Secretary silently handed it to his visitor. It was from the Chief of Police of Melbourne, announcing that Jessie Dymond had just arrived in that city in a sailing vessel, ignorant of all that had occurred, and had been immediately dispatched back to England, having made a statement entirely corroborating the theory of the defense. "Pending further inquiries into this," said the Home Secretary, not without appreciation of the grim humor of the situation as he glanced at Grodman's ashen cheeks, "I have reprieved the prisoner. Mr. Templeton was about to dispatch the messenger to the governor of Newgate as you entered this room. Mr. Wimp's card-castle would have tumbled to pieces without your assistance. Your still undiscoverable crime would have shaken his reputation as you intended." A sudden explosion shook the room and blent with the cheers of the populace. Grodman had shot himself--very scientifically--in the heart. He fell at the Home Secretary's feet, stone dead. [Illustration: He fell at the Home Secretary's feet, stone dead.] Some of the workingmen who had been standing waiting by the shafts of the hansom helped to bear the stretcher. THE END. The Antique Library of Standard and Popular 12mos. ABBE CONSTANTIN. Halevy. ABBOT. Scott. ADAM BEDE. Eliot. AESOP'S FABLES. ALHAMBRA. Irving. ALICE. Lytton. AN AMERICAN GIRL IN LONDON. Duncan. ANDERSEN'S FAIRY TALES. Andersen. ANNE OF GEIERSTEIN. Scott. ANTIQUARY. Scott. ARABIAN NIGHTS' ENTERTAINMENTS. ARDATH. Corelli. AULD LANG SYNE. Russell. BARON MUNCHAUSEN. Raspe. BARRACK ROOM BALLADS AND OTHER VERSE. Kipling. BEHIND A MASK. Daudet. BETROTHED. Scott. BETWEEN TWO OPINIONS. Loti. BEYOND THE CITY. Doyle. BIG BOW MYSTERY. Zangwill. BLACK BEAUTY. Sewell. BLACK DWARF. Scott. BLACK TULIP. Dumas. BONDMAN. Caine. BRIDE OF LAMMERMOOR. Scott. BRYANT'S POEMS. Bryant. CALLED BACK. Conway. CAST UP BY THE SEA. Baker. CAXTONS, THE Lytton. CHANGE OF AIR. Hope. CHILDREN OF THE ABBEY. Roche. CHOUANS. Balzac. CLEOPATRA. Haggard. CLOISTER WENDHUSEN. Heimburg. COUNT ROBERT OF PARIS. Scott. COWPER'S POEMS. Cowper. CRIQUETTE. Halevy. DANESBURY HOUSE. Wood. DANIRA. Werner. DARK DAYS. Conway. DAVID COPPERFIELD. Dickens. DEEMSTER. Caine. DEERSLAYER. Cooper. DEPARTMENTAL DITTIES. Kipling. DESCENT OF MAN. Darwin. DESPERATE REMEDIES. Hardy. DEVEREUX. Lytton. DIANA OF THE CROSSWAYS. Meredith. DOCTOR RAMEAU. Ohnet. DOMBEY & SON. Dickens. DONOVAN. Lyall. DOROTHY'S DOUBLE. Henty. EAST LYNNE. Wood. ELSIE. Heimburg. ERNEST MALTRAVERS. Lytton. EUGENE ARAM. Lytton.