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Sefton was now able to correct certain conjectures he had formed at the outset of his inquiries. He had to abandon altogether his theory of a partnership between Vane and Weiss in the matter or a diamond deal. He might never learn the reason why Weiss had gone into Herefordshire, but that didn't very much matter. Probably some more or less shady business connected with schemes centring round his supposed daughter was at the bottom of his residence in the country. Sefton began to see his way to saving Gerald Rashleigh. He could put such pressure on Weiss as would effectually stop all persecution in that quarter. What to him was of greater moment was that his would be the happiness of proving that Mr.
Vane had not perished by his own hand. The knowledge that her father had been murdered would be a shock to Elsie, but at any rate this would be infinitely more tolerable than the hopeless misery of feeling that there was insanity in her family.