There was a moment of silence. Then the coroner said, “In view of the circumstances, I want to recall Mr. Driscoll for one more question.”
“Take the stand, Driscoll,” Rodney Cuff said.
Scanlon stared at the young man with steady, purposeful eyes. “Is it possible that someone else could have been in the Prescott house while you were there, Mr. Driscoll?”
Driscoll shook his head. “I think not, your Honor.”
Scanlon’s voice became utterly without emphasis or expression. “Did you,” he asked, “go into all the rooms in that house?”
“Well,” Driscoll said, hesitated, then went on quickly, “of course we didn’t go into the upstairs bedrooms, no, sir.”
“You’re positive of that?”
“Quite!” Driscoll snapped.
“And you didn’t go into the basement?”
“No, if there is a basement I didn’t go into it.”