13 was where she could have seen the upper edge of the tapestry shake if she had been looking that way; but she was not.

She also was going from instead of toward the point of interest--in other words, entering and not leaving the room on whose threshold she stood.
Only two men were left from whom he could hope to obtain the important testimony he was so anxiously seeking: Nos.

10 and 11.

He had turned back toward the bench where they should be awaiting his attention and was debating whether he would gain more by attacking them singly or together, when he suddenly became aware of a fact which drove all these small considerations out of his mind.
According to every calculation and according to the chart, there should be only these two men on that bench.

But he saw _three_.