Eva immediately ordered that the injured man be taken to Brent Rock in her car. Then she turned sharply to Zita.
"How did you come to be here?" she demanded.
Zita was startled and confused. It lasted only a minute. Then, her mind made up, she replied, defiantly:
"I came here to discover the secret of my birth. I have been told that I am Mr. Brent's daughter."
Eva was stricken dumb with astonishment at this startling claim, but Locke laughed outright.
"What nonsense!" he scoffed. "Eva, don't listen to it."
Zita glared at him and with a haughty nod to Eva swept out of the garden.
Eva was still frightfully indignant with Locke and insisted on going home alone. However, they arrived at Brent Rock at about the same time.
The emissary had been placed on a lounge in the library and a doctor was called. The case was quite hopeless and they merely hoped to obtain a confession before he passed away.
When Eva arrived she went directly to her father's room, but, as he was receiving every attention from a trained nurse and she could do nothing further to aid him, she returned to the library.