"But, grandfather, I——"
"My dear, I'm not always thinking only of myself. You have your life before you and I want you to be happy. My only condition is that there shall always be a place at your fireside for me."
The tears were in Zena's eyes as she kissed him, but she looked at me and I knew my waiting time was nearly over.
"Now I shall rest on my laurels, Wigan, and trouble no more about mysteries," said Quarles.
He meant it, but I very much doubt whether a ruling passion is so easily controlled. We shall see.
THE END
Transcriber's Note: The following typographical errors present in the original edition have been corrected.
In Chapter I, "It is obvivious that a man who possessed such stones" was changed to "It is obvious that a man who possessed such stones", and a period was changed to a comma after "several boarding-houses in Ossery Road".
In Chapter VI, quotation marks were deleted after "far more of a lover than a detective" and "I could swear to it".