The girl looked surprised.
“I had followed—thinking to help him.”
“How soon after?”
“A moment or two.”
Again Ashton-Kirk looked at Scanlon.
“Between the time you saw Campe without at the gate, and the time you got downstairs, I think it could have happened.”
“It could,” replied Mr. Scanlon.
“There are a number of little things which Mr. Scanlon could not understand,” said the crime specialist to the girl. “For example, how he came to see you in the hall, apparently looking for some one, on the night he discovered the housebreakers.”
“He saw me?” She looked at Scanlon. “When?”
“When you lighted the match. But I heard you before that—talking to the fellow who jumped through the window.”