"What then?"
"It will never be necessary to compel me to surrender the fortune; I will be only too glad to do so—yes, delighted to do so in case the real heir can be found; but what have you discovered?"
"I have discovered that the man who visited you was Jake Canfield."
"You have learned the name of the man?"
"I have."
"Is he living?"
"We know that he is dead, killed on the railroad, but it is believed down where he was raised that he was drowned from his boat while out fishing."
"Then that accounts for his body not being identified."
"That in one way, and in another there were interested parties who did not desire that his body should be identified."
"And you have learned all this?"