th was coming quickly, her eyes and her fingers seemed to be clinging to his as though for support. Her touch, her intimate prese

he is dead?" s

assuringly. "I saw no weapon a

closed

at," she declared, "and I saw som

e, if you like,"

ers grip

hat you recognized the hand-that it was the sam

tly. "It was a crude-looking affair, but the stone

nly the r

h. It was foolish of me, perhaps, to say anything about it, and yet-and yet

come through her t

ny one else. Indeed, there are othe

ond. He chanced to look into her fac

ll," he

e sat up. She was evid

s. Find out exactly what has happened a

od up

that you will

ter when I know what really has happened. You mus

staurant, quite alone, for every one had streamed across the courtyard to see what the disturbance was. The side of the room adjoining the stairs

is that?" de

ognized hi

Starling-the man

g!" she

in," Arnold continued. "He

ook he

e while you are away. Pe

met Starling upon the

atherley with you?"

e in the Grill Room. I believe that she was real

t af

d impossible that there was an

med. "Rosario was stabbed outside

plexion seemed sudden

rio stabbed?"

of it," Arnold continued. "He was stabbed just as he

wh

e swift crispness of a pistol

to ask for particulars. Will

e affected him strangely. His head was thrown a little back, his nostri

se. Come back as soon as you can a

ole of the vestibule where the affair had happened was closed, and the only information which it was possible to collect Arnold gathered from the excited conversations of the little knots of people standing around. I

osario?" h

nly for a moment. The t

vely. "He was stabbed to the hear

from their white faces. Fenella sank back in her chair with a little sob which might almost have bee

he muttered. "A

te," Arnold told them. "They seem to think that h

her feet, glanced for a moment in the looking-glass,

shall not forget it-indeed I shall not. Mr. Starl

autiful than ever now with their mist of risen tears. But there were other th

ad such a shock," he said. "Is the

. Then for the first time Arnold realized the s

of what was likely to happen!" he exclaime

spoke for sev

y. "You were told to wait inside the re

hiver. His mission had been to sav