"Yes."
"But, Doctor, you couldn't. It happened less than ten minutes ago."
"Cyrus told me. Perhaps somebody telephoned him."
"But I have no telephone."
Dr. Alton smiled. "Possibly somebody is a faster runner than you."
"But no one was there except Alice, Ruth and myself."
"Ruth may have done it."
"Ruth has not left her mother. She is there now. And nobody else knows of it."
For a moment Dr. Alton was silent. "Bad news travels fast, Mr. Heywood."