"I cannot fix the precise time, but it was after Mr. Harwell came up, and before I closed my own."
"And you heard no pistol shot?"
"No, sir."
The coroner cast a quick look at the jury, who almost to a man glanced aside as he did so.
"Miss Leavenworth, we are told that Hannah, one of the servants, started for your room late last night after some medicine. Did she come there?"
"No, sir."
"When did you first learn of her remarkable disappearance from this house during the night?"
"This morning before breakfast. Molly met me in the hall, and asked how Hannah was. I thought the inquiry a strange one, and naturally questioned her. A moment’s talk made the conclusion plain that the girl was gone."
"What did you think when you became assured of this fact?"
"I did not know what to think."
"No suspicion of foul play crossed your mind?"
"No, sir."
"You did not connect the fact with that of your uncle’s murder?"
"I did not know of this murder then."
"And afterwards?"
"Oh, some thought of the possibility of her knowing something about it may have crossed my mind; I cannot say."
"Can you tell us anything of this girl’s past history?"
"I can tell you no more in regard to it than my cousin has done."
"Do you not know what made her sad at night?"
Her cheek flushed angrily; was it at his tone, or at
