“Speak the truth—or it may be mean trouble for you and him, too.”
“He was—he seemed to be dusting off a chair.”
“With a duster?”
“No; just passing over it with his hand.”
“That isn’t dusting it.”
“Well, I don’t know what you call it! Perhaps he was merely pushing the chair into place.”
“It isn’t his custom to push the study furniture into place. He was erasing indicative marks on that plush chair back—that’s what he was doing.”
“Absurd!” Helen cried; “what marks could there be?”
“I don’t know. Come and let us see.”
Cray took Helen to the study, and asked her to sit in the chair.