“Yes. I was in the tub with the water running. I turned it off and she called to me that she and Helen had both heard a loud scream. I thought it was some lark the girls were having and told her, if she was dressed, to go and see what was going on. She went downstairs. Helen went with her. A few minutes later my wife burst into the bathroom and told me that Mr. Harrison had been shot and Miss Mount wanted me to come down at once and take charge. So I hustled into my clothes and went down.”
Bernard leaned forward in his chair. “Now tell us exactly what you found when you got there!”
“That’s rather difficult,” said Graham. “Almost everyone in the house was either in the reception-room or milling around in the doorway. Susan was whooping and crying, Isabelle had fainted and one of the men, Russell, I think, had picked her up and was trying to get out into the hall with her. I pushed my way into the room and saw Mr. Harrison lying on his back. Miss Mount grabbed my arm, told me that he was dead, she thought, and urged me to tell her what to do. So I—”
“Who was there when you got there, and who wasn’t?” Landis interrupted.
“Well, Miss Mount was there, of course. Russell came out into the hall with Isabelle just before I went in. Allen was there with Anita. The butler was trying to quiet Susan. Helen, the other housemaid, was there, too. Mrs. Graham followed me down. I think that’s all.”
“Which leaves the cook, the chauffeur and Joel Harrison. You didn’t see them there?”
“No, I didn’t. But I didn’t notice particularly. I saw Mr. Harrison’s face and decided Miss Mount was right. I advised her to tell the butler to get Susan out of that and Helen, too. Then I went into the library to look around and my wife came with me. There was no one in here so I sat down at Mr. Harrison’s desk and called the doctor and then the police. I got Stanford’s name from Miss Mount. While I was at the telephone things quieted down a bit and Russell and Allen drifted in.
“As I hung up Miss Mount came in and called my attention to the strung bow and the closed door. She said the two girls had gone to their rooms and the butler had taken the maids to the kitchen. Then Russell and Allen said they’d better go, and I asked them not to leave the house until the police came.”
“They didn’t want to stay,” nodded Bernard.
“They both realized that it was better for no one to leave the house until after the police had been here.”