Looking him fairly in the face, the lady returned:
“I can see, sir, that you suspect me, or if you do not, at least you want every circumstance that seems at all strange explained to your satisfaction.”
“That is the truth.”
“Well, the explanation is easy. Instead of waiting until to-day to go back to her boarding house, I went there later in the afternoon. In the meantime she had returned with Mr. Barnes and had left word for me that she could be found here, on learning which I at once came to this place.”
“Had you then heard of what had befallen your husband?”
“I learned it while on my way here, from the columns of an afternoon paper that I bought in the car.”
“You found Miss Doane here?”
“I did.”
“And recognized her as your daughter?”
“Yes.”