My God, Miss Natalie, have you lost your mind?
Do you even deny dismissing me from your service ?" She gazed at him through the gloom, utterly unable to comprehend.
"I must have, if what you say is true," she admitted, "For I certainly have no such recollection." "You remember nothing of going back with us to 'Fairlawn' ?" "Absolutely nothing." "Or of a conversation had with me later in the library ?" "No, Captain West." He stared off into the black night, his lips pressed closely together.
Could this be false?
Could she sit there calmly, in the midst of such peril as surrounded them, and still deliberately endeavour to deceive?
"And you knew nothing of the death of Percival Coolidge, except what was told you by that woman ?" "She brought me a newspaper which I read; that was all I knew." "And in that house on Wray Street where I met you again last night.

I suppose you were not there either ?" "Wray Street?
I do not know; I was at some place with a saloon on the ground floor.

I could not tell you where it was." "That is where it was--Wray Street, on the northwest side, a thieves' rendezvous.

And you talked with me there; tried to get me to quit following you.

You surely haven't forgotten that already ?" She dropped her face wearily into her hands, and her voice sounded listless.
"I--I almost believe you are the crazy one, Captain West.