"It was something quite different, but dreadful, dreadful!" Mr.Gryce's manner changed.
"Then you did hear it.

You were near enough to distinguish between a scream and a gasp.

Where were you, and why weren't you seen by my man when he went through the building ?" "I--I was kneeling out of sight--too shocked to move.

But I grew tired of that and wanted to go; but on reaching the court, I found the doors closed.

So I came here." "Kneeling! Where were you kneeling ?" He made a quick gesture in the direction of the galleries.
The detective frowned, perhaps to hide his secret satisfaction.
"Won't you be a little more definite ?" he asked; then as the man continued to hesitate he added, but as yet without any appreciable loss of kindliness: "Every other person here has been good enough to show us the exact place he was occupying at that serious moment.