“He is,” said Nick.
“Then I have been imposed upon,” said the woman, sullenly.
It required some minutes for Nick to explain the case fully to Parks. Then he asked to see the card bearing his name and the note.
Nick showed it.
“This is really one of my cards,” said Parks, “but the writing bears no resemblance to mine.”
He sat down by the table and rapidly wrote the words of the message upon a card which he took from his pocket.
There was no similarity between the two hands.
“Here is the nurse whom I really engaged,” said Parks, indicating the woman who had accompanied him. “She is well known in the hospital. As for you, murderess——”
His emotion, which he had hitherto repressed, broke out in violent reproaches as he turned upon the creature who had so nearly crushed out his wife’s last chance of life.
She bore the storm firmly and repeated her story that she had come in good faith, and had done the best she could.