Chapter 61

Saxham's square face was ashen, but the Chief's eyes were elsewhere. "And you told him----?" "I told him, that whilst physical disease and deformity are transmissible from the unhealthy parents to their unlucky offspring, no sensible Christian regarded the theory of inherited vice or crime, as anything but the most pernicious lie that the devil ever invented to spread as a net for the catching of bodies and souls. That seemed to buck him up!" "I do not doubt it!" said Saxham. He breathed more freely, and his face…