"It sounds mysterious. Let's have it," said James.
"It seemed to me as I thought over those movies the other night that there was a very good chance that that man Schuler—your singing teacher, you know, Fräulein's betrothed—wasn't dead after all."
"It certainly looked like it—the way he fell back against the orderly—he didn't look alive."
"He didn't—that's a fact. At the same time the film made one of those sudden changes right at that instant."
"Father and I thought that was so a death scene shouldn't be shown," said James.
"That's possible, but it's also possible that they thought that was a good dramatic spot to leave that group of people and go off to another group."
"What's your idea? I don't suppose we could find out from the film people."
"Probably not. It would be too roundabout to try to get at their operator in Belgium and very likely he wouldn't remember if they did get in touch with him."
"He must be seeing sights like that all the time."
"Brother Edward suggested when he heard us talking about it that we should send a cable to Mademoiselle and ask her. She must have known Mr. Schuler here in the school at Rosemont."