The detective turned to the unfaithful nurse.
“Come with me,” he said.
She obeyed him without a word.
He led her to the private room of one of the surgeons which had been placed at his disposal.
“Now, murderess,” said he, sternly, “tell me who sent you to do this work?”
“What work?”
“Don’t trifle with me. There is a noose around your neck.”
“No, there isn’t,” said the woman, coolly. “I was employed to come here and attend that patient. I did it as well as I knew how.”
Nick could not deny to himself the force of her words. He had not seen her remove the bandage. He could not swear that she had done so. It might have been done by the sick woman herself.
A nurse cannot be prosecuted for an error of judgment unless it amounts to criminal carelessness.