Read "The White Room" by Fergus Hume online for free on Textopian. Full text with search, annotations, highlights, and AI-powered reading aids.
So this was the end of the case which so perplexed London and London's police. But neither the police nor the public came to know the truth, as will appear from a conversation held between Laura and her lover a fortnight after the death of Jasher. As they were to be married, and there were to be no secrets between them, Arnold told her the whole truth, suppressing nothing. Laura wept.
"O Arnold, how terrible it is for Julia! What will she do?"