Yes--I think I understand that the house in which you are lodging exactly faces the alley where the two crimes were committed ?" And there arose a quick, futile discussion.

The house did not face the alley, but the window of the witness's bedroom faced the alley.
"A distinction without a difference," said the coroner testily.
"And now tell us as clearly and quickly as you can what you saw when you looked out." There fell a dead silence on the crowded court.

And then the woman broke out, speaking more volubly and firmly than she had yet done.
"I saw 'im!" she cried.

"I shall never forget it--no, not till my dying day!" And she looked round defiantly.
Mrs.Bunting suddenly remembered a chat one of the newspaper men had had with a person who slept under this woman's room.

That person had unkindly said she felt sure that Lizzie Cole had not got up that night--that she had made up the whole story.