Where were they kept ?" "Mrs.Heredith's jewel-case is downstairs, in the safe in the library," replied Miss Heredith.

She did not feel called upon to add the additional information that she had taken it there herself, and locked it up, not half an hour before.
Detective Caldew made a mental note of the fact that the motive for the crime was not robbery, unless, indeed, the murderer had become flurried, and fled.

His eye, glancing round the room, was attracted by the window curtains, which were stirring faintly.

He flung them back, and saw the open window.
"How long has this window been open ?" he asked.
Miss Heredith gave her reasons for believing that the window was closed when she left Violet to go downstairs to the dining-room.

Caldew listened thoughtfully, and nodded his head in quick comprehension when she added the information that the bedroom window was nearly twenty feet from the ground.
"You think the murderer did not jump out of the window," he said.