“I do.”
“You were there after I was?”
“Yes.”
He was looking sharply but covertly at her, and she knew it.
Quietly, he now said:
“You came here last night, I am told?”
“I did.”
“And asked for Miss Doane?”
“I did.”
“If, when you left her boarding house at one or two o’clock, you did not know that she was here, how could you have come here and inquired for her with such perfect confidence as to the result?”