"Is Harry still abroad?"
"Yes, sir. He is stopping at Amsterdam, hoping to get a ship."
"Does he know of his mother's death?"
"Yes," answered Isa. "I told him, and sent him the papers."
"What does he say?"
"He intends to return here and pray by her grave."
Theodore shrugged his shoulders cynically. "He had much better avenge her death," was his remark.
"He wants to," said Isa stolidly; "but he says that he can't guess who killed her, and does not know how to begin. He is very sorrowful over the death, Mr. Dane, as he loved his mother."
"He doesn't seem to be so very sorry," snapped Theodore sharply, "or he would return and learn who murdered her."
"I am writing to him to advise him to do so," said the woman quickly. "Oh, don't think that Harry is hard, sir! He is--he is--afraid!"