AGAINST A STONE WALL Was this discovery anything to him?
What difference could it make whether Percival Coolidge had died by his own hand, or been treacherously shot from ambush?
How would it benefit Natalie Coolidge to have the truth revealed?
And, if it would benefit her, why should he devote his time and labour to such an effort?
She had cast him off, thrown him aside; her affairs had no further interest for him.

Let her lawyer take care of them.

These were West's first thoughts.
All true, yet this state of mind brought no satisfaction.

He was interested; he could not escape his first impressions of the girl, or drive from him a desire to serve her, whether she wished it, or not.
She might, indeed, be in equal danger from an assassin.

He could not determine this until he learned the cause of the slaying of Percival.
Then, on the other hand, suppose some one else's suspicions were also aroused.