“As you please. Ah! Chick, what is that?
“A message from the hospital.”
“Let me see it.”
Nick tore the envelope, glanced at the contents, and then said:
“She is fully conscious. She knows everything.”
Morton Parks’ face became ashen. Then for an instant it cleared. If his wife was conscious he was not yet a murderer, at least he could save his life out of the ruin of his fortunes.
“Do you still deny your guilt?” Nick said, addressing Parks.
“It is fate,” the man muttered. “I have never for an instant expected to escape it.”
Doc Helstone and his friends were taken to police headquarters.
Reeves, the witness, was released.