The others preserved a watchful, unbroken silence.
"Captain Tremayne spent that half-hour at Monsanto in her room.

He was with her when he heard the cry that took him to the window.

Thence he saw the body in the courtyard, and in alarm went down at once--without considering the consequences to the woman.

But because he has considered them since, he now keeps silent." "Sir, sir," Captain Tremayne turned in wild appeal to the president, "this is not true." He conceived at once the terrible mistake that Miss Armytage had made.

She must have seen him climb down from Lady O'Moy's balcony, and she had come to the only possible, horrible conclusion.
"This lady is mistaken, I am ready to--" "A moment, sir.