The one at the head was irregularly indented--something shaped had pressed upon it.

It might have been a face--it might not; and there was a little brown stain which was fresh and which was blood.

The second cushion had two separate impressions, and between them the cushion was forced up in a thin ridge; and these impressions were more definite.

I measured the distance between the two cushions, and I found this: that supposing--and it was a large supposition--the cushions had not been moved since those impressions were made, a girl of Mlle.

Celie's height lying stretched out upon the sofa would have her face pressing down upon one cushion and her feet and insteps upon the other.