Of course, if Nora intended to commit suicide she had had ample time to carry out her plans, but still there was a chance that she had changed her mind.
The detective reached the river at a spot nearest the house he had just left.
He could see nothing of the hunted woman, and no crowd such as gathers on the piers when the body of a suicide has been discovered greeted him.
The detective walked along the river front for some distance with his senses on the alert.
All at once he caught sight of something floating in the water, and he stopped suddenly and leaned forward.
It did not take him long to see that the object was the body of a woman, and Carter called a policeman who stood a short distance away.
“That’s the same woman!” cried the patrolman the moment he caught sight of the body.
“What woman?” asked Carter.
“Why, sir, the woman who came down here three hours ago and asked me some fool questions about the river.”
“Well?”