Anyhow, I have acted to please myself, and my father will, I am sure, approve of what I have done." Brett shook his head.

No lawyer could approve of these rough-and-ready settlements of important family affairs.
"Has anyone telegraphed to Mrs.Capella ?" he inquired.
"Yes," said Robert, "I did.

I just said 'Ooma dead; Capella reported seriously ill.

Remain in Whitby.

I will join you to-morrow evening.' That, I thought, was enough for a start." It certainly was.
Soon there came excited messages from both Margaret and Helen demanding more details, whereupon Brett, who knew that suspense was more unbearable than full knowledge, sent a fairly complete account of occurrences.
During the next few days there was the usual commotion in the Press that follows the opening up of the secret records of a great and mysterious crime.
It came as a tremendous surprise to David Hume-Frazer to learn how many people were convinced of his innocence "all the time." Being the central figure in the affair, he was compelled to remain at Beechcroft until Capella and Ooma were interred, and the coroner's jury, at a deferred inquest, had recorded their verdict that the wretched Japanese descendant of the Scottish Jacobite was not only doubly a murderer, but guilty of the heinous crime of _felo de se_.
Brett, in the interim, saw to the despatch of the Italian witnesses back to Naples.