"The doors on the ground floor are both locked, as we have seen." "We greatly feared," continued the duke, turning to his wife, "that the murderer if he were still in the garden, finding it was being searched, might terrify you by rushing in here." "No one has been in here," said Fay automatically.
"Have you been in this room ever since you left the saloon ?" said her husband.
"Yes.

I have been reading here ever since." "Then it is impossible that anyone should have escaped into the house through this room," said the duke.

"The duchess must have seen him.

It is no longer necessary to search the house." The _delegato_ hesitated.

He opened the glass door and spoke to the men with the lantern.
"They are convinced that it is not possible he is concealed in the garden," he said.