"I said I would help Mr.Mallow if I could," she said when seated.
"Oh, and have you anything likely to help him,-" "Not exactly," said Susan, "but I found some old papers of father's." "I don't quite understand," said the detective, who did not see what the girl's father had to do in the matter.
"Well, it's this way, sir.

Father was poisoned five years ago." "Who poisoned him ?" "That we never knew," explained Susan.

"Father's name was Maxwell, but when mother married Mr.Grant she made me take that name.

It was supposed that father committed suicide, and mother felt the disgrace dreadful.

That was why she married and changed the name.