“Is that the only occasion upon which you have ever seen it?”
“No, sir,”—the secretary blushed—“I have seen it once since.”
“When?”
“About three weeks ago.”
“Under what circumstances?”
The secretary dropped his head, a certain drawn look making itself suddenly visible on his countenance.
“Will you not excuse me, gentlemen?” he asked, after a moment’s hesitation.
“It is impossible,” returned the coroner.
His face grew even more pallid and deprecatory. “I am obliged to introduce the name of a lady,” he hesitatingly declared.
“We are very sorry,” remarked the coroner.