authorities have made a horrible mistake in detaining Mr. Bartlett," she
added. "Don't you, Mr. Blossom?"

"I - er - I don't know what to think. Your father had some enemies, it
is true. Every business man has. And a person with a temper easily
aroused, such as - "

LeGrand Blossom stopped suddenly.

"You were about to name some one?" asked Viola.

"Well, I was about to give, merely as an instance, Jean Forette the
chauffeur. Not that I think the Frenchman had a thing to do with the
matter. But he has a violent temper at times, and again he is as meek
as any one I ever knew. But say a person did give way to violent
passion, such as I have seen him do at times when something went wrong
with the hig, new car, might not such a person, for a fancied wrong,
take means of ending the life of a person who had angered him?"

"I never liked Jean Forette," put in Miss Carwell, "and I was glad when
I heard Horace was to let him go."

"Do yon think-do you believe he had anything to do with my father's
death?" asked Viola quickly.

"Not the least in the world," answered the head clerk hastily. "I just
used him as an iliustration."

"But he quarreled with my father," the girl went on. "They had words,
I know."