I tell you the window was open.

You say it is barred--that is true, but a very thin person could slip between those bars.

A woman----" "Impossible," said Tarling shortly.

"The bars have been very carefully measured, and nothing bigger than a rabbit could get through.

And you have no idea who carried the body away ?" "None whatever," replied Milburgh firmly.
Tarling had opened his mouth to say something, when a telephone bell shrilled, and he picked up the instrument from the table on which it stood.
It was a strange voice that greeted him, a voice husky and loud, as though it were unused to telephoning.
"Tarling the name ?" shouted the voice quickly.
"That is my name," said Tarling.
"She's a friend of yours, ain't she ?" asked the voice.
There was a chuckle.