“Did you see those candles?”
“No, sir.”
“You did not see them?”
“No, sir.”
“Yet you went over to the table?”
“Yes, sir, but I did not meddle with the packages. I had really no business with them.”
The coroner, surveying her sadly, went quickly on as if anxious to terminate this painful examination.
“You have not told us what you did when you heard that pistol-shot.”
“I ran away as soon as I could move; I ran madly from the house.”
“Where?”