“But I drove them from me.” “You would like to recover them?” “I would give half my fortune to be able to do so.” “Have you never been able to learn anything of them?” “I have not.” “Not of your wife, or of both wife and daughter?” “I mean both.” “Then you do not know that your daughter is alive?” “I do not.” “And you did not, the day before being paid that burglarious visit, write a letter to her?” “How could I when I did not even know that she was alive?” The detective smiled with triumph, while a great look of relief spread over his face. Nick’s next step was to acquaint his old friend with the fact that he would find his wife and daughter at his home. Nick said: “Wife and daughter!” He had no hesitation now in saying the latter, for Helen Doane stood proven as an innocent party in a dark transaction. And yet the circumstantial evidence against her was sufficient to have convicted her. It is needless for us to go into details of the happy meeting that followed between the members of the reunited family, of how Mr. Field begged for forgiveness, and was forgiven; of how his wife proved that she still loved him; of how happy they were in having found so good and true a daughter; of how they lived so happily afterward in each other’s society. Helen Field, as she now was known, explained to Mr. Barnes on a subsequent occasion how it was that, being of a somewhat romantic turn of mind, and feeling that the service done her by Lorton was of signal value, she had determined to place her life at his disposal in return for having, as she painted it, saved it for her. It was this that had led her to refusing Barnes’ suit. After listening to this naïve confession he did just what any sensible man would have done in his place--took her in his arms and kissed her over and over again, and ending up by a request that she would name the “happy day.” And, as all obedient girls do, she “referred him to her father.” Father in this case was not a stern tyrant, and acquiesced heartily and gave them his blessing--and a check for a hundred thousand the day they were married! Demas Lorton, Luke and Helen Lorton were tried, convicted and sentenced to prison for the longest possible terms. Nick’s reawakened anxiety in regard to Mr. Field was, long before this happy event, finally and fully relieved. Two weeks after Lorton’s trial and sentence, an unknown man was killed by a fall from the elevated railroad station at Thirty-fourth Street. Nick Carter happened to go to the morgue on other business, and the keeper, knowing his familiarity with members of the criminal class, invited him to view the body. Nick identified it at a glance. It was Elmer Greer!