“When I came here this morning he was gone; that’s all I know.”
“Don’t you live here?”
“No. I come every morning and do the cleaning up.”
“You know that a man has been confined as a prisoner in the cellar of this house for many days.”
“Laws, you don’t say so?”
Burt saw the colored woman’s surprise was genuine.
“Who are there in the house beside yourself?” he asked.
“No one that I know of.”
“Which is the way to the cellar?”
It was pointed out. Burt found the red-curtained apartment in which Stolburst had been kept prisoner. The latter was not there. On the floor lay the body of Deth.