In the absorption which followed this glimpse of Orpha’s face so many days denied me, I lost the trend of the next few questions, and only realized that we were approaching the crux of the situation when I heard:
“You did not visit him again?”
“No.”
“Where did you go?”
“To my room.”
“Will you state to the jury just where your room is located?”
“On the same floor as Uncle’s, only further front and on the opposite side of the hall.”
“We have here a chart of that floor. Will you be good enough to step to it and indicate the two rooms you mention?”
Here, at a gesture from the Coroner, an official drew a string attached to a roll suspended on one of the walls and a rudely drawn diagram, large enough to be seen from all parts of the court-room, fell into view.[A]
[A] [A reduced copy of the plan will be found facing the title page of this book.]