"Yes."
"And the word 'Pursuit,' with an exclamation point after it? That suggest anything to you?"
"Why, no." She showed her first curiosity: "Where did you get that piece of envelope?"
"Not from Berne Webster," he said, smiling.
"I suppose not," she agreed, and did not press him for the information.
"You said," he went to another point, "that the sheriff attached no importance to your belief in Webster's guilt. Can you tell me why?"
Her contempt was frank enough now, and visible, her lips thickening and assuming the abnormally humid appearance he had noticed before.
"He thinks the footsteps which Miss Sloane says she heard are the deciding evidence. He accuses a young man named Russell, Eugene Russell, who's been attentive to Mildred."
Hastings was relieved.
"Crown's seen him, seen Russell?" he asked, not troubling to conceal his eagerness.