“Heavens! Jack! Yes.”

“Will you go up and see him?”

She fell back, but the hand stayed her.

“He did it, then?” she cried.

“You saw some one, then?”

“Yes; but for Heaven’s sake don’t mix me up in anything like murder.”

Carter watched the nervous twitching of the woman’s lips and waited for her to calm herself.

“When was he here?” he asked.

“Last night.”

“What was he like?”