"I seen a shadow come out av the cellar door."
"The only cellar door; near the side av the house, sorr."
"What sort of a shadow?"
"'Twas the shadow av a man, and a big one. The sun cast it on the side av the house, sorr."
Oakes thought a moment, then arose and said: "Step here, Mike, and point out the side of the house you mean."
Mike hesitated. The other servants withdrew at Oakes's suggestion that he wished to talk with the gardener. The latter advanced. We felt that Oakes was trying to spring a trap.
"The side of the house where the cellar door is," reiterated Mike.
"Nonsense, O'Brien. Your story is impossible. The sun was then in the east and the shadow would have been thrown on the east wall. There is no door on that side; it is on the west side of the house."
O'Brien looked at Oakes defiantly.