Was the man you saw tall or short, little or big?
"A.

I only saw a shadow which appeared to me formidable.
"Q.

You cannot give us any indication?
"A.

I know nothing more, monsieur, than that a man threw himself upon me and that I fired at him.

I know nothing more." Here the interrogation of Mademoiselle Stangerson concluded.
Rouletabille waited patiently for Monsieur Robert Darzac, who soon appeared.
From a room near the chamber of Mademoiselle Stangerson, he had heard the interrogatory and now came to recount it to my friend with great exactitude, aided by an excellent memory.