"Did you see me?"
"Where?"
"In Barker's outer office."
"No."
"Yet I was there. I was the strange man who came in and waited. Do you remember you told me you saw a stranger come in?"
"I--remember that I told you."
"But you don't remember what the man looked like? You didn't recognize me as the man?"
He put his hands up suddenly and clutched his head. "Do you think I was out of my head that night? Was I--was I--under his influence? Do you mean that I was hypnotized when I shot Barker?"
"That is what I have thought possible, but I have changed my mind on that point. Benbow, I don't believe that you were out of your room that night after you returned from the Frat supper."
He was shaking so that he could not speak, but I saw the piteous questioning of his eyes.