It was strange that Jenny, who set the ball rolling, should have been the indirect means of avenging her father's murder--or rather of solving the mystery which concealed it. Had she not discovered those papers in the garret, she would not have been able to give Frank Linton the plot of "A Whim of Fate." Had that novel not been written and published, Mrs. Bezel would not have read it, and thereby have been induced to write to Claude. Had she not done so, Hilliston would not have told Claude the truth, thence we would not have taken up the investigation and solved the mystery. It was Jenny who was responsible for the whole. After five-and-twenty years the child of the murdered man unconsciously enlightened us as to the person who had slain him. Fate works in strange ways. But I do not wish to figure further as a detective. This one experience has been quite enough for me. The thought, the anguish, the trouble is too worrying. The next criminal case in the Larcher family can look after itself. I abandon the rôle of detective, and thus put the last word to my only criminal case. THE END. A SELECTED LIST OF NOVELS AND TALES PUBLISHED BY THE CASSELL PUBLISHING CO., _31 E. 17th St._ (_Union Square_), _New York_. Alphabetically arranged by Authors. Cloth Paper