"My job would have been a good deal easier if there'd been less of that secret machinery.
"When there are five hundred ways in which a thing could have been done, it's pretty hard to say which one is right.
"There's a trap pretty nearly in the spot where the figure stood. Probably she came up and went down through that.
"But how about my shooting? There's the point.
"I took a direct line from the place where I was to the trap.
"Following that line, I came to the screen in front of the fire-place.
"In that screen, and about four and a half feet from the floor, were three bullets from my pistol. The other two are not there.
"Then, as I figure it out, that ghost has carried them away.
"My shooting was pretty good, considering the light. The three bullets were in the bigness of a watch-crystal.
"I feel sure that the other two were aimed just as well. If that's true, then one of the conspirators has some mighty serious wounds. Three went through her, and she stopped two.