4/25 The lamp lay on the floor, surrounded by several extinguished candles. It was a mercy that all the lights had been put out when overturned, else the gim-crack cottage would have been long since in a blaze. Chairs and tables and screens were also overturned, and the one window had its rose-hued curtains torn down and its glass broken, showing only too clearly the way in which the murderer had escaped. And that the man who had attacked Mrs.Jasher was a murderer could be seen from the stream of blood that ran slowly from Mrs. Apparently she had been stabbed in the lungs, for the wound was on the right side. |