So I said to the Superintendent: "Perhaps it will be better if Miss Trelawny will see me alone for a few minutes.

You, of course, have already heard all she knows; and I shall understand better how things are if I may ask some questions.

I will then talk the matter over with you if I may." "I shall be glad to be of what service I can, sir," he answered heartily.
Following Miss Trelawny, I moved over to a dainty room which opened from the hall and looked out on the garden at the back of the house.
When we had entered and I had closed the door she said: "I will thank you later for your goodness in coming to me in my trouble; but at present you can best help me when you know the facts." "Go on," I said.

"Tell me all you know and spare no detail, however trivial it may at the present time seem to be." She went on at once: "I was awakened by some sound; I do not know what.

I only know that it came through my sleep; for all at once I found myself awake, with my heart beating wildly, listening anxiously for some sound from my Father's room.