“Where were you?[{21}]”
“On the street.”
“Was there any one in the office at the time?”
“I don’t know.”
“When you came in you found her lying there on that desk dead?”
Nick once more noticed just the mote of a hesitation in the reply.
“Yes, she was sitting there in that chair stone dead.”
“How long had you been out of the office?”
“Ten or fifteen minutes—maybe longer.”
“Where had you gone?”