This was the sum of the evidence, circumstantial and true, that was advanced.

Satisfied that nothing else was to be learned, the officers, detectives, Willis, and Miss Donovan and the pale _Chronicle_ youth withdrew, leaving the officer on guard.
The same day, young John, eager to be away from the scene, moved his belongings to the Fairmount Hotel, and, since no will was found in the dead man's papers, the entire estate came to him, as next of kin.

A day or two later the body was interred in the family lot beside the father's grave, and the night of the funeral young John Cavendish dined at an out-of-the-way road-house with a blonde with a hard metallic voice.

Her name was Miss Celeste La Rue.
And the day following he discharged Francois Valois without apparent cause, in a sudden burst of temper.

So, seemingly, the curtain fell on the last act of the play..