She rushed into the room, slamming the door behind her, and collapsed into a heap of moaning terror at her mistress's feet.

At first she was completely inarticulate, but after a time she muttered that she had seen "him" and then fell to groaning again.
The same thought was in all their minds, that in some corner of the upper floor she had come across the body of Anderson.

But when Miss Cornelia finally quieted her and asked this, she shook her head.
"It was the Bat I saw," was her astounding statement.

"He dropped through the skylight out there and ran along the hall.

I saw him I tell you.