Then aunt sent Clancy away at ten o'clock.

The parlor-maid returned to the kitchen and there had supper.

She heard the bell ring at eleven, and found aunt dead in the sitting-room, stabbed to the heart." "Heard the bell ring ?" echoed Juliet.

"But how could aunt ring if she had been killed ?" "She might have rung as she was dying," said Basil, after a pause.

"It seems she was seated near the button of the bell and could have touched it without rising.