"Didn't have time to say anything ?" "Ask the young lady," said Anderson, with a jerk of his head.

"She was here when it happened." The Doctor gave Dale a feverish glance of inquiry.
"He just fell over," said the latter pitifully.

Her answer seemed to relieve the Doctor of some unseen weight on his mind.

He drew a long breath and turned back toward Fleming's body with comparative calm.
"Poor Dick has proved my case for me better than I expected," he said, regarding the still, unbreathing heap beneath the raincoat.

He swerved toward the detective.
"Mr.Anderson," he said with dignified pleading, "I ask you to use your influence, to see that these two ladies find some safer spot than this for the night." Lizzie bounced up from her chair, instanter.
"Two ?" she wailed.