"It was in my endeavors to prevent the match that I saw so much of Miss Louise Stapleton."
"Ah! I am glad of the explanation! I was just going to inquire why you, of all members of the family, were the only one to know your brother's wife by sight."
The witness, considering this question answered, made no reply. But the next suggestion could not be passed over.
"If you saw Mrs. Van Burnam so often, you are acquainted with her personal appearance?"
"Sufficiently so; as well as I know that of my ordinary calling-acquaintance."
"Was she light or dark?"
"She had brown hair."
"Similar to this?"
The lock held up was the one which had been cut from the head of the dead girl.
"Yes, somewhat similar to that." The tone was cold; but he could not hide his distress.