It brought no answer." "But--but these galleries are visible from below.

Some one may have been looking up from the court and----" "If there was any such person in the building, he would have been here by this time.

People don't hold back such information." "Then--then--" she stammered, her eyes taking on a hunted look, "you conclude--these people conclude _what_ ?" "Madam,"-- the word came coldly, stinging her into drawing herself to her full height,--"it is not for me to conclude in a case like this.

That is the business of the police." At this word, with its suggestion of crime, her air of conscious power vanished in sudden collapse.

Possibly she had seen the significant gesture with which the Curator pointed out a quiver from which one of the arrows was missing.