Captain Ernscliffe was growing too excited to keep his seat. He rose and paced up and down the room, his arms folded over his broad breast, his burning gaze fixed on the detective's shrewd, intelligent face. "She knew that the man would follow Madame De Lisle like her evil genius, and she determined to keep near the beautiful actress. The next day she disguised herself as an elderly woman, changed her name, and went into your wife's service as her maid." Captain Ernscliffe gazed at him silently. He began to comprehend now. "There's little more to tell, sir. Jennie left her mother in the United States and followed Madame De Lisle across the ocean. "At first the actress had an old couple of actors with her--the same that adopted her and taught her their profession--but they both died. "The old man sickened first and died, and his wife soon followed him to the grave. "Then the actress grew attached to Jennie, and would not have parted with her for anything. "Her middle-aged appearance was a protection to the young lady who was so beautiful and so lonely, and she never suspected that her elderly maid was other than what she seemed. "Jennie was contented to remain with her; but though she followed her like a shadow she never saw her base betrayer until the night of the murder. "That night a small boy came to the dressing-room with that fatal letter. "It was so unusual an occurrence that Jennie stealthily followed him out and saw where he had gone. "Hidden behind the curtains of a window, she watched the man outside the western door. "Almost at the moment that she recognized him she saw him spring to the door. "She parted the curtains and saw the steel flashing in his hand, to be buried the next moment in the heart of the woman coming up to him." He paused a moment at Captain Ernscliffe's hollow groan; then continued: "Jennie told me that the wild scream of anguish that rose the next moment nearly broke her heart. "She thought it was her dear, kind mistress whom he had killed, and she was filled with the fury of the tigress. "She sprang over the fallen body, and followed the murderer, who was hurrying away. "She caught him by the arm, and fastened her teeth in his arm. "He shook her off and ran away. She sprang after him. "She followed him to a house, but he escaped from it, or eluded her somehow, and she took quarters in the vicinity, and was watching the place when I found her. "With the information she gave me I succeeded in tracing him further, and finally we tracked him down. "He is at this moment in prison, and if he gets his dues he will swing from the gallows right speedily. A blacker-hearted villain never walked upon the earth." There was silence for a time, and then the detective added: "When I landed herein this city, with Jennie in my charge, we found that her mother was dead.