My eyes were blinded, leaping from a lighted room." McDonald leaned forward eagerly, one hand tapping the table.
"Was one of them a woman ?" he questioned sharply.
Hamlin's heart leaped into his throat, but he held himself motionless.
"They were indistinguishable, sir; mere shadows.

Have you reason to suspect there may have been a woman involved ?" The Major leaned back in his chair, but the commandant, after a glance at his officer, answered: "The pistol used was a small one, such as a woman might carry, and there are marks of a woman's shoe plainly visible at the edge of the ravine.

Lieutenant Gaskins was alone when he left the officers' club five minutes before the firing began.

You are sure you have never had any controversy with this officer ?" "Perfectly sure, sir.

We have never met except on the one occasion already referred to, and then scarcely a dozen words were exchanged." "How then, Sergeant," and the Colonel spoke very soberly, "do you account for his denouncing you as his assassin ?" "I presumed he was influenced by my arrest, sir; that the shock had affected his brain." "That supposition will hardly answer.