The bow brought up so many days before from the cellar was within reach; the arrow under his coat; and his place of concealment so chosen as to make his escape feasible the moment that arrow flew from the bow.

Had she entered that section alone--had the arrow found lodgment in her breast instead of in that of another--nay, I will go even further and say that had no cry followed his act, an expectation he had every right to count upon from the lightning-like character of the attack,--he would have reached the Curator's office and been out of the building before quick discovery of the deed made his completion of this attempt impossible." "But the girl did cry out," remarked the Assistant District Attorney.
"How do you account for that, since, as you say, it was not natural for one pierced to the heart without warning ?" "Ah, you see the big mistake we made,--Correy and all the rest of us.

Had Miss Willetts, or I should say, Mademoiselle Duclos, been the one to let out that dolorous cry, the man just behind the partition would have been there almost in time to see her fall.

Correy, who started up the stairs at the first sound, would have been at the gallery entrance before the man of the arrow could have dropped the hanging over his retreating figure.

But it was not from her lips, poor girl, that this gasping shriek went up, but from those of the woman who saw the deed and knew from whom the arrow came and for whom it was meant.