"She sprang over the fallen body, and followed the murderer, who was hurrying away.
"She caught him by the arm, and fastened her teeth in his arm.
"He shook her off and ran away. She sprang after him.
"She followed him to a house, but he escaped from it, or eluded her somehow, and she took quarters in the vicinity, and was watching the place when I found her.
"With the information she gave me I succeeded in tracing him further, and finally we tracked him down.
"He is at this moment in prison, and if he gets his dues he will swing from the gallows right speedily. A blacker-hearted villain never walked upon the earth."
There was silence for a time, and then the detective added:
"When I landed herein this city, with Jennie in my charge, we found that her mother was dead.
"The poor girl has not a friend on earth, and she has promised to marry me to-day, and after the trial is over she will return to England with me.
"She is a good, sweet, true girl, and I don't bear any grudge against her because she has suffered from the arts of a villain through her too confiding innocence."