"I sent for you, Captain Baynell, because I have heard something—there are rumors—"
He did not take the word from her, nor help her out. He sat quietly waiting.
"In short, I think you ought to know that I overheard all that passed between you and Julius Roscoe on the stairs that morning."
Captain Baynell's rejoinder surprised her.
"Then he was really in the house?" he said meditatively.
"Oh, yes,—though I did not know it till he dashed past me in the hall. Two minutes had not elapsed since you had left me here standing by the table."
She detailed the circumstances, and when she had finished speaking he thanked her simply, and said that the facts would be of value to him.
"I thought you ought to know them, hearing Colonel Ashley describe the various rumors afloat—but, but these—they—they will soon die out?" She looked at him appealingly.
He did not answer immediately. Then—
"I shall be court-martialled," he said succinctly.