“Near five o’clock.”
“Before or after Redway went downstairs?”
“Just before, if I remember rightly.”
Mr. Kennedy, Mr. Grote and Miss Lucas were then called in together and questioned concerning what they knew of the affair.
Neither had any knowledge which at first could throw light on the subject in hand.
They had been at work in their offices, two floors above, and neither heard a pistol shot.
“Do any of you remember the noise of a heavily loaded wagon which passed through the street below about five o’clock?” inquired Nick.
Mr. Grote remembered it distinctly, and for a good reason.
When questioned for the reason, he replied[{31}] that at the time Miss Lucas was standing at the window looking down the street. He had called to her, and the din was so great he was compelled to raise the pitch of his voice and call three times before she heard him.
Miss Lucas then remembered the circumstance, but was not aware of any unusual noise at the time. There might have been such a noise, however, but her attention was wholly engrossed just then by something else.