The Green Bungalow by Fred M. White

There was no mistaking the sincerity of Prest's declaration and a warm smile of gratitude flashed across Nettie's face. She had not altogether approved of his attitude with regard to Harley and his army career, though she could not in all honesty declare that Prest was anything but right. Still, it seemed to her that some vague way might have been found out of the tragedy without the drastic course of Roy's leaving the army altogether. But that was the mere woman's way of looking at it with sentiment overriding logic.

"I like to hear you speak like that," Blythe said. "If I had expected anything else I should not have induced Miss Frond to have lured you here to-day. If you will consent to put yourself entirely in my hands, Captain Prest, I will pledge my word, for what it is worth, that I can prove that your unfortunate friend has been the victim of a cruel fraud and conspiracy."