Yes, Mr. Woodford admitted that a woman had called to see him about that hour. He was out at the time, and his office boy asked her to sit down and wait.
She did wait for a little while, when, without saying a word, she passed hastily out of the office, almost running as she went.
He had come in a few minutes later when the boy related the circumstance to him.
He had no means of knowing whether he had ever seen the lady or not, or of knowing who she was. She left no name; indeed, left nothing to identify her but a glove.
Here the lawyer pulled a lady’s kid glove from his pocket and held it up before Nick’s eyes.[{44}]
“She left this behind in her unceremonious departure,” the lawyer said.
Nick recognized it at once as the mate to the glove which was found partly on the hand of the dead girl.
With some reluctance, and apparent misgivings as to the policy, Lawyer Woodford permitted Nick to take the glove away with him.
As the detective was about to leave, Woodford seemed to recollect something, and said:
“Oh, by the way, perhaps I know who can tell you more about that lady!”