I tried
it. I found out through this little tube, the detectascope, that
one really entered the room after that, and tried to wipe off any
supposed finger-prints that might still remain. That settled it.
The second will was a forgery, and the person who entered that
room so stealthily this afternoon knows that it is a forgery."
As Kennedy slapped down on the table the film from his camera,
which had been concealed, Mrs. Godwin turned her now large and
unnaturally bright eyes and met those of the other woman in the
room.
"Oh--oh--heaven help us--me, I mean!" cried Miriam, unable to bear
the strain of the turn of events longer. "I knew there would be
retribution--I knew--I knew--"
Mrs. Godwin was on her feet in a moment.
"Once my intuition was not wrong though all science and law was
against me," she pleaded with Kennedy. There was a gentleness in
her tone that fell like a soft rain on the surging passions of
those who had wronged her so shamefully. "Professor Kennedy,
Miriam could not have forged--"
Kennedy smiled.
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