The detective went to see her, and you know the result--the old lady's removal.
Recently we received word that she was so much improved that she could mumble in a way to be understood, and last week the detective and I went to see her.

This was my apparently inconsistent business out of town." "But tell us what she said," Witherspoon demanded.
"Her deposition is in the hands of the law." He said this with a sly pleasure--Witherspoon had so often spoken of the law as if it were his agent.

"I can simply tell you," Henry continued, "that she saw Brooks when he shot the old man." "But how can that be?
Brooks and his wife ran into the room at the same time.

They were together." "Yes, they ran into the room together, and Brooks had presumably just jumped out of bed.

But be that as it may, Mrs.Colton saw him when he shot the old man.