The second door was a former back entrance--it opens somewhere near the servants' quarters, I think ?" He glanced inquiringly at Miss Heredith.
"Those stairs are never used now," she replied.

"The entrance door at the bottom of the staircase is kept locked." "There are such things as skeleton keys," commented the detective.
Musard opened the door of the death-chamber and switched on the light.
Caldew walked at once to the bedside.

He drew away the covering which had been placed over the face of the young wife, and stood looking at her.
Death had invested her with pathos, but not with dignity.

On the pallor of the death mask the tinted lips, the spots of rouge, the pencilled eyebrows of the dead face, were as clearly revealed as print on a white page.

The lips were parted; the small white teeth were showing beneath the upper lip.