“No; I am merely being just to her.”
“But poor Turnieff is dead, and he has been killed by the men with whom she is working.”
“We surmise that; but we do not know it. Even if it is so, it does not follow that she is in any way accountable for his murder, or that she knew that it was decreed.”
“I think it does. Anyhow I shall act on that belief.”
“As you please, prince.”
“But, Carter, what are you to do now?”
“I am to work this case out to the end, I believe; and incidentally, I shall seek and find the men who murdered Turnieff, and who would have charged me with the crime.”
“Good. I believe you will do it. But how? You are a suspected man, Carter. You cannot go abroad in the streets now as you would have done. The papers will be filled with talk about you.”
“I know it. I am anxious to see them. But I shall go about in the streets just the same, prince. I have not studied the art of disguising myself for nothing. Really, the case has just begun.”