“How do you know he died?”
“Why, he sort of relaxed—limp like,—and stopped trying to speak.”
“And he seemed to be after some name beginning with J,—say James or John.”
“That’s the way it sounded.”
“All right. Now, how long had you been absent from this place when you returned and found him?”
“Just long enough to take Mr Vail up to his floor,—the tenth.”
“Vail? Who’s he?”
“One of our tenants. He lives on the tenth floor. He came in and I took him up——”
“And came right down again?”
“Yes; and when I got down, I saw the—the heap in the lobby.”