The coroner did not comment on that but looked expressively at the jury.
Then she corroborated, under his questions, every detail I had told of our finding of the body of Mr. Jackson and of our subsequent actions. He made his questions very searching and important indeed, and I felt something between a fool and a liar during the process; I am not accustomed to having my word doubted.
“Miss Letheny answered the telephone, when I called for the doctor,” Maida explained, “and said that she couldn’t rouse him, and when I said we must have him immediately she went away from the telephone and when she came back told me that he was not in the house and she didn’t know where he had gone.”
“Then you telephoned to Dr. Balman?”
“Yes.”
“Did he answer immediately?”
“No. I think he must have been asleep. When he did answer I told him simply of Mr. Jackson’s unexpected death and that we could not locate Dr. Letheny.”
“About how long was it until Dr. Balman arrived?”
“I’m not sure. I was—agitated naturally. But I should say about fifteen minutes.”
“How was he dressed when he arrived?”