When the door closed, Nick took from his pocket the hat pin which he found in[Pg 56] Mr. Rogers’ room, and placed it on a chair close to his visitor.
"Does that pin belong to you, madame?" asked he.
She looked at it; then put her hand up to her hat to satisfy herself that the one there was not missing.
"Why, yes!" she cried. "I have missed that pin for some days. I wonder where it came from, or how it could have got here."
"It was found upon the bed with Mr. Rogers’ dead body."
She trembled and became pale and confused.
But recovering herself, she asked:
"Where did you say it was found?"
"Where you dropped it, madame."
"What do you mean?"