“Not clearly, but unmistakably. As I say, it was so still that every sound seemed exaggerated. But I heard Eric’s voice as truly as I stand here. Explain it, Beatrice.”
“How can I? Except to say that there must have been some human agency. I don’t believe for a minute that Eric’s ghost returned the jewels.”
“But Natalie says he has haunted this studio ever since he died. She says he will continue to do so, until his murderer is found and punished.”
“I have heard of such things, but I can’t believe it in this case.”
“What will Barry say? He was so imperative that Natalie should not try the trance business.”
“I know it. But I can’t see that she has done any real harm. The jewels are here—isn’t it marvellous, Joyce? How could they have been brought in without your knowing it?”
“Oh, as to that, I’m sure Natalie produced them after I left the room. I wish now I’d stayed here. My one thought was to get somebody else to corroborate the mysterious happenings.”
“You’re sure the jewels were not here on the table when you went out of the room?”
“I can’t say positively. They might have been. You see, I never thought of looking for them. I looked about the room to see if any person were present, and I looked thoroughly, too. But I didn’t look on the table.”
“Nobody could have come in at the Billiard Room door?”