"He had turned over and was rolling off."
"Then you were holding his arm———"
"Until help came. Then Mr. Clifford pulled him back over the edge."
Mrs. Van Shaw paused. Then she said abruptly:
"My son says you pushed him over the cliff."
"How dreadful!" a voice broke in and there was Helen, Her cheeks on fire, sitting up confronting Mrs. Van Shaw.
"I know, Miss Douglas, he spoke in his delirium. But what were you doing out there together? Why should you and Ross be there?" she said, turning again to Bauer, who, when confronted with Van Shaw's charge, had turned pale and clenched his fingers deep into his palms.
"I cannot tell you why we were there. I did not push him over the cliff.
The edge of it where he stood, crumbled and he went down."
"Why were you there with him? Can't you tell me that?"
"I would rather not."