Adam Adams watched her keenly and noted how she trembled from head to
foot.

"Do not take it so hard, Margaret," put in Raymond Case, placing his
hand upon her shoulder. "It will all come out right in the end--I am
sure of it."

"But it will not bring back my father!" sobbed the girl. "And he was
so dear to me! And to think that we should quarrel at all--"

"The quarrel took place at the breakfast table, so you said," came from
Adam Adams. "And you rushed out to get away from what your stepmother
was saying to you?"

"Yes. I could not bear it any longer."

"Your father took Mrs. Langmore's part?"

"He did, but at the same time he told her not to be so hard on me--that
I had been without a mother to guide me so many years, and all that."

"Do you think they quarreled between themselves after you left, or
after your father came back from the bank?"

"I cannot say as to that."

"Mr. Adams has an idea that possibly one or the other of them was
responsible," put in Raymond. "He thinks one might have killed the
other and then committed suicide."