"Were you walking with him on the night Miss Lester was killed?"
"I were," replied Miss Bilway, frankly. "We went to the Methody Chapel together."
"Where did you meet him?"
"Just by the church, sir. We heard the shot fired when the bell was ringing."
"But you were with him in the Winding Lane?"
Jane shook her head emphatically. "No, I wasn't, sir," she denied. "I couldn't git away in time to go there. I wasn't in the lane on that night."
"Oh!" Paul noted that Brent had been telling a lie. "You met Brent by St. Dunstan's Church at nine o'clock, and went to the Methodist Chapel?"
"Yes, I did. And I 'eard the shot fired, but I thought it was nothin', though Giles he wanted to go back."
"You didn't see Miss Lester on that night?"
"No, sir; but I see Miss Iris, her sister, by the church at nine. She must 'ave heard the shot, too."