[THE WIND-UP]
So this was the end of the case which so perplexed London and London's police. But neither the police nor the public came to know the truth, as will appear from a conversation held between Laura and her lover a fortnight after the death of Jasher. As they were to be married, and there were to be no secrets between them, Arnold told her the whole truth, suppressing nothing. Laura wept.
"O Arnold, how terrible it is for Julia! What will she do?"
"She has already made up her mind what to do, and I think she has taken the wisest course."
"What is that?"
"She will marry Walter Fane quietly and go abroad for a time. Then no one will ever know the truth."
"But it might come out in other ways."
"No. I have taken care of that. Derrick, as you know, gave up the case some weeks ago, as he could discover nothing. The only thing he is doing now is watching the Hampstead house for the return of the dead woman's husband. Of course your brother-in-law will never return there, and so Derrick will grow weary."
"But did not Jasher confess when he died?"
"Only to me and Tracey, dear. When Mrs. Baldwin shot him under the impression that he was a burglar, he did not die immediately. He was taken to the hospital, but died a few days later. In the interval he sent for me and Tracey, and knowing everything was ended for him, he confessed."