"The little information I still require." "You mean you want me to sell the crowd out?" "Not that; because I offer you nothing. A number of men are going to the gallows or the penitentiary for this, Avery, and you--I suspect--among them; though I also suspect--from what I have learned about your character in the last few days--that you'll take any means open to you to avoid sharing their fate." "I suppose you mean by that that I'll turn State's evidence if I get a chance, and that I might as well begin now." "That, I should say, is entirely up to you. The charge of what I know--with the simultaneous arrest of a certain number of men in different places whom I know must be implicated--will be made to-morrow. You, perhaps, are a better judge than I of the cohesion of your group in the contingencies which it will face to-morrow morning. I offer you nothing now, Avery--no recommendation of clemency--nothing. If you prefer to have me learn the full facts from the first of another who breaks, very well." Santoine waited. He heard Avery take a few more steps up and down; then he halted; now he walked again; they were uneven steps as Santoine heard them; then Avery stopped once more. "What is it you want to know, sir?" "Who killed Warden?" "John Yarrow is his name; he was a sort of hanger-on of Latron's. I don't know where Latron picked him up." "Was it he who also made the attack on the train?" "Yes." "Who was the other man on the train--the one that claimed the telegram addressed to Lawrence Hillward?" "His name's Hollock. He's the titular owner of the place on the Michigan shore where Latron has been living. The telegram I sent night before last was addressed to his place, you know. He's been a sort of go-between for Latron and the men--those who knew--who were managing the properties. I'd never met him, though, Mr. Santoine, and I didn't know either him or Hollock on the train. As I said, I wasn't in the know about killing Warden." "When did you learn who Eaton was, Avery?" "The day after we got back here from the West I got word from Latron; they didn't tell me till they needed to use me." Avery hesitated; then he went on--he was eager now to tell all he knew in his belief that by doing so he was helping his own case. "You understand, sir, about Latron's pretended death--a guide at the shooting lodge had been killed by a chance shot in the woods; purely accidental; some one of the party had fired at a deer, missed, and never knew he'd killed a man with the waste shot. When the guide didn't come back to camp, they looked for him and found his body. He was a man who never would be missed or inquired for and was very nearly Latron's size; and that gave Latron the idea.