“After I went up on the boat deck. He said, ‘Here’s the money, but don’t do anything with it until I get back. I want Belle to have it all for her own. You remember — it’s Belle’s‘ — I can’t remember his exact words. I tried to get him to come back to the cabin with me. He tried to strike me. That was too much. I ran downstairs, went to my cabin and started changing my clothes.”
“How did you leave the boat deck?” Mason asked.
“By the forward stairway on the starboard side.”
“Did anyone see you?”
“No.”
“Did you meet anyone while you were going to your cabin?”
“I don’t remember.”
“Why did you tell the captain you hadn’t been on deck?”
“Because I felt certain that Carl had jumped overboard and I didn’t want to be mixed up in it.”
“Do you mean that when you left him, you thought he was going to...?”