"Had Mrs. Hunt's body been moved when you arrived? I mean, from the very spot where it fell?"
"It had and it hadn't. The doc here found her lyin' face down on the floor, right in front of the couch. He had to roll her over on her back to examine her. That's all. The body's there now like that, covered with a sheet. Nothin' else has been disturbed."
"The body was lying face down, you say?"
"Yes," struck in Doctor Askew; "it was."
"At full length?"
"Yes."
"Isn't that rather surprising?"
"Unquestionably."
"How do you account for the position?"
"There's only one possible explanation," replied Doctor Askew, as if giving expert testimony from a witness box; "a sudden and complete loss of balance, pitching the body sharply forward, accompanied by such a binding of the legs and feet as to prevent any instinctive movement toward recovery."