But you asked, and I have answered." "You have done right, Miss Cumberland.

The jury ought to know these facts.

Was it a human sigh ?" "It wasn't the sigh of the pines." "And you heard it in one of the doorways?
Which doorway ?" "The one opposite the room in which I left my sister." "The doorway to the large hall ?" "Yes, sir." Oh, the sinister memories! The moments which I myself had spent there--after this time of her passing through the hall, thank God!--but not long after.

And some one had been there before me! Was it Arthur?
I hardly had the courage to interrogate his face, but when I did, I, like every one else who looked that way, met nothing but the quietude of a fully composed man.

There was nothing to be learned from him now; the hour for self-betrayal was past.