By some feminine necromancy, too, she divined the link which binds you with the death of Mrs.Lester.She was distressed on your account, and I was hard put to it to extricate myself from the risk of saying something which I might regret.

I--" "What do you imply by that remark ?" interrupted Forbes, piercing the other with a look that was strangely reminiscent of his daughter's candid scrutiny.
"I imply the serious fact that I know who visited Mrs.Lester before she met her death.

I not only heard her visitor's arrival and departure, but saw him at the corner of these mansions while on my way home from Daly's Theater, and again when he posted a letter in the pillar box on the same corner.

If such unwonted interest on my part in the movements of one who was then a complete stranger surprises you, let me remind you that only a few minutes earlier I had stood by his side at the door of the theater and heard him telling his daughter that he intended to walk to the Constitutional Club." Forbes smiled, but uttered no word.

His expression was inscrutable.