Here was a pleasant predicament.

If she testified for the State her brother would undoubtedly go to prison for many years, to say nothing of the notoriety for the entire family which so sensational a case would occasion.

She, therefore, slipped out of the city and sailed for Europe the night before she was to appear before the grand jury.

Her brother was in due course indicted and held for trial in large bail, but there was and is no prospect of convicting him for his crime so long as his sister remains in the voluntary exile to which she has subjected herself.

She can never return to New York to live unless something happens either to the indictment or her brother, neither of which events seems likely in the immediate future.
Perhaps, if the case is one of shooting, the weapon has vanished.