"No, I won't. It will only upset her. She is so agitated over the whole affair. I'll go and see the detective who had the case in hand, and I won't tell Kaituna anything until I can say, 'This is the murderer of your father.'"
"It's a wild-goose chase."
"Perhaps. Still something may be discovered."
At this moment Kaituna returned, dressed for walking, and after bidding fare well to Mrs. Belswin, Archie went out with his sweetheart, leaving the chaperon still standing by the window.
Mrs. Belswin twisted her hands together, and looked at the carpet with an angry frown.
"Something maybe discovered," she repeated in a thoughtful tone. "I don't think so. The assassin came out of the night, fulfilled his mission, and disappeared again into the night. Not all the machinery of the law could find out the truth, and where the law failed I don't think you'll succeed, Archibald Maxwell."
[CHAPTER XXIV.]
A MEMORY OF THE PAST.
I.
"The present becomes the future.
Yes! but the present does not again become the past;
Time goes forward forever--we cannot return on his footsteps,
For the laws of the universe are unalterable, unchangeable and fixed.