“I didn’t think much then of it, but I am thinking now that as the lady got into the coach I heard a sort of cry or scream from her, but the door slammed shut right after it, and I was off at once.”
Nick looked at Chick, and the latter said:
“It looks, chief, as if you were right as to when the person got into the coach.”
“Yes,” said Nick; “that would look as if the man was already in the coach, and the noise that Ethel made was a cry of surprise at finding some one there.”
Turning to Rawson, he said:
“It looks like a very important point, Rawson, and I wish you would keep up thinking about it. Any little thing about the whole matter tell me of.”
What answer Rawson might have made to this was prevented by a man who was evidently a stableman, coming up and addressing Rawson, not knowing who the two were the coachman was talking to. He said:
“I say, Rawson, it’s true, isn’t it, that you drove the woman that was killed in the coach yesterday?”
“Yes, it’s true; worse luck,” said Rawson.
“Well, say,” said the man, “the papers say there wasn’t any man with the woman in that coach. I say there was. What do you say?”