“Were you in there at your desk to-day?”
“Not since noon.”
“You were absent since noon?”
“Yes, until I returned just in time to be ‘in at the death.’”
There was a bad attempt to smile, as this was said, but the smile was painfully forced.
“Then you know nothing about the manner of the tragedy?”
“Nothing.”
“You and Redway were exchanging hot words when I surprised you. What was it that passed between you?[{17}]”
“I accused him of having killed Miss Langdon.”
“And what reply did he make?”