Her face brightened up.

“I am so glad!”

“Zulima, your uncle is dead.”

The princess did not cry. For a moment she regarded the detective with a stony stare.

“Where is the body?”

“In the room where Stolburst was confined,” replied Burt.

“Did you kill him?”

“He killed himself.”

Without another word the princess went up-stairs.

Burt took his departure.