"A few days ago."
"On the day before your father was murdered?"
"No; on the day preceding that she came to see him."
"Were you present at the interview?"
"Yes."
"Good! Now tell me exactly what occurred at that meeting."
"She said that she would consent to a divorce for fifty thousand dollars. Father[Pg 20] agreed to pay that sum in exchange for the certificate of divorce, and to pay her expenses to California and allow her a certain amount to live there until the divorce was granted."
"Well, what then?"
"He asked her to put it in writing. She called the next evening, after Dr. Lord had left, and said she would not do it for less than one hundred thousand dollars.
"My father told her that this was impossible. He read for her his will, and explained that by conceding fifty thousand dollars he was robbing my sister and myself of a large part of our heritage."