The cold fear, the fear of the unearthly, subsided from around Dale's heart, leaving her shaken but more at peace.
The detective turned swiftly to the Doctor, as if to put his case before the eyes of an unprejudiced witness.
"That Jap rang the phone," he said decisively.

"Miss Van Gorder believes that this murder is the culmination of the series of mysterious happenings that caused her to send for me.

I do not." "Then what is the significance of the anonymous letters ?" broke in Miss Cornelia heatedly.

"Of the man Lizzie saw going up the stairs, of the attempt to break into this house--of the ringing of that telephone bell ?" Anderson replied with one deliberate word.
"Terrorization," he said.
The Doctor moistened his dry lips in an effort to speak.
"By whom ?" he asked.
Anderson's voice was an icicle.
"I imagine by Miss Van Gorder's servants.

By that woman there--" he pointed at Lizzie, who rose indignantly to deny the charge.