"Pardon--it is wrong. I did not let fall the feather. I place him there for my reason."
"Place him where?" asked Mexton, adopting her grammatical error in his bewilderment.
"On the breast--oh, no--on the back of that dead lady."
"You saw the corpse?"
"Yes; I saw him."
"Then you know who killed the girl?"
"No; that I know not."
"Did Mr. Herne shoot Miss Lester?" asked Paul, determined to get a direct answer.
"I cannot say truly. I did not see."
"Did you fire the shot yourself."