"We did not."
"And you can tell us how the interview terminated?"
"Yes, sir. I turned away and took the train back home, which I saw standing on the track without."
"And he?"
"Turned away also. Where he went I cannot say."
"Miss Dare"—the District Attorney's voice was very earnest—"can you tell us which of you made the first movement to go?"
"What does he mean by that?" whispered Hickory to Byrd.
"I think——" she commenced and paused. Her eyes in wandering over the throng of spectators before her, had settled on these two detectives, and noting the breathless way in which they looked at her, she seemed to realize that more might lie in this question than at first appeared.
"I do not know," she answered at last. "It was a simultaneous movement, I think."
"Are you sure?" persisted Mr. Ferris. "You are on oath, Miss Dare? Is there no way in which you can make certain whether he or you took the initiatory step in this sudden parting after an event that so materially changed your mutual prospects?"