"Then it's true," she whispered. "It's true, it's true, it's true!"
And Jan gave her Tiger's swaggering smile and, content, she walked proudly beside him, returning the bows of the multitude through which they passed.
Back on Earth, a few days later, an item ran in a Seattle paper. EMBEZZLER COMMITS SUICIDE
Millionaire Heir Finds Losses
Nathaniel Green Leaves Confession Note on Deathbed
Seattle, Wash.
Nathaniel Green, long known in local shipping circles as manager for Bering Sea Steamship com足mitted suicide last night at his home on Queen Anne Hill....
Jan Palmer, recently absolved from the slaying of Pro足fessor Frobish, told police that even after he had noted the missing amounts he had not seen fit to bring charges, but, rather, had been on the point of discharging Green.
"It is not from any merciful intent," said Palmer at his home last night, "for the company was almost ruined. But I did not wish to mar my honeymoon or worry my bride."
This aftermath of the strange case of Professor Frobish climaxed the most publicized affair of the year. Green, who was mainly responsible for Palmer's false imprisonment in a local asylum, had evidently sought to cover up his embez足zled funds by murdering Professor Frobish and thereby throw足ing the stigma of the crime upon the young millionaire. Though Judge Dougherty says that this is probably the case, no post mortem action is to be taken against Green and so the matter has been closed.
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