“Did you see me there?” she asked.
“Not that I recollect,” replied Chick. “Perhaps it is very wrong for me that I should have failed to observe so charming a person as yourself.”
“None of that, please,” sharply returned the young woman.
She was silent a moment, and then said:
“Yes, I was there, and one of the few who knew that Mr. Ellison left the house.”
Chick started. It suddenly broke on him that the person beside him was one of the bridesmaids, and yet he could not be certain.
While he was thinking this over, she asked:
“Do you know how Mr. Ellison left the house?”
Again Chick thought rapidly, and concluded that he would gain more by answering the question straightly.
“We think,” he said, “that he left concealed by a great cape coat that had been worn into the house by another man, and that he had a wig and beard on to resemble that man.”