He was here until father came for me, and then stepped into the other room.

When I came back, he had gone.

A little later I heard you searching the rooms, and went out into the hall believing it might be he." "You saw nothing more of him ?" "No." "Nor of the man you mistook for a guard ?" She shook her head positively.
"Only the once." Then, after hesitating, her eyes uplifted to mine." Lieutenant Galesworth, you did not encounter Captain Le Gaire alive in the hall ?" "I never saw him alive after he ran from the field.

The noise you heard was when I tripped and fell, my revolver dropping to the floor.

It was then I discovered his dead body.