"I say amen to that," answered this extraordinary man.  "When next you see her, say that Dick Courtenay saved your life--for her sweet sake. And tell her also that, despite everything that was said against me, I was innocent.  She will understand what I mean and will believe me, perhaps, after all these years.  Ah," he continued, springing to his feet and striding up and down the room, "if she had but believed me at the time, I should never have become what I now am!  Had she had faith in me, I could have borne everything else--shame, disgrace, dishonour, ruin--I could have borne them all.  But when to the loss of those was added the loss of her esteem, her respect, her love, it was too much; I had nothing left to live for--save revenge; and by heaven I have had my fill of that!"