"You didn't follow him?"
"We did not."
Madge smiled as she thought of how such a suggestion would have been received had it been made at the time.
"He came in through the back window and left through the front?"
"That's it."
"And he took nothing?"
"No--but he left something behind him--he left this."
Madge produced the half-sheet of paper which Ella had picked up from the floor.
"You're sure this was his property?"
"I'm sure it isn't ours, and I'm sure we found it in this room just after he left it."