we’ll let the dead things lie.”

 

“What do you mean by word coming from her?” I asked curiously.

 

“I have the strongest impression that somewhere or somehow she must have left a

message for me—before she went. I can’t argue about it, but there it is.”

 

I shook my head.

 

“She left no letter or word of any kind. I asked.”

 

“Sheppard, I’m convinced that she did. And more, I’ve a feeling that by

deliberately choosing death, she wanted the whole thing to come out, if only to

be revenged on the man who drove her to desperation. I believe that if I could

have seen her then, she would have told me his name and bid me go for him for

all I was worth.”

 

He looked at me.

 

“You don’t believe in impressions?”

 

“Oh, yes, I do, in a sense. If, as you put it, word should come from her——”

 

I broke off. The door opened noiselessly and Parker entered with a salver on

which were some letters.