"I presume there was a housekeeper who lived on the top floor, and who had been stone deaf for ten years ?" "Precisely." "She had heard nothing during the murder ?" "Not a thing.

But this may have been on account of her deafness." "True, true," murmured Kent.

"And I suppose there was a coachman, a thoroughly reliable man, who lived with his wife at the back of the house----" "But who had taken his wife over to see a relation on the night of the murder, and who did not return until an advanced hour.

Mr.Kent, we've been all over that.

There's nothing in it." "Were there any other persons belonging to the establishment ?" "There was Mr.Kelly's stenographer, Alice Delary, but she only came in the mornings." "Have you seen her ?" asked Kent eagerly.