By that time Dunham's senatorial term will be out.

He will retire from politics, and so, his record and our interests are secure! I always feared that Ferris would turn up darkly in this sad murder business," gloomily added the old lawyer.

"But the whole secret inquest so far proves to me the correctness of Boardman and Warner's judgment.
Ferris feared Clayton's natural influence over the old man, and his own final game was the daughter's hand, and then the control of the old man's fortune.

He spied on Clayton, lied about him, and at last brought about the estrangement of the old man and his only loyal servant in the whole circle.
"Poor Clayton! After his death he fell into a useless fortune! Miss Worthington has already made arrangements for a magnificent monument to him in the family plot at Detroit, and Randall Clayton will be there beside his stern old master.

But for Ferris' wiles Clayton would surely have married that noble girl, and been alive to-day, a happy man, in Detroit.
"Ferris played a bold game and lost at last.