Yet it was his cry that led me to the spot; or do you think it was that of the bird I afterward heard shouting and screaming in the cage over the dead man's head ?" "It might have been the bird," admitted Mr.Gryce.

"Its call is very clear, and it seems strangely intelligent.

What was it saying while you stood there ?" "Something about Eva.

'Lovely Eva, maddening Eva! I love Eva! Eva! Eva!'" "Eva?
Wasn't it 'Evelyn?
Poor Evelyn ?'" "No, it was Eva.

I thought he might mean the girl I had just seen carried out.