“Where are the servants now, Miss Mount?”

“They are all waiting in the kitchen in case you wish to question them.”

“Anything else up there of interest?”

“There is a big play-room where the girls still go sometimes. They were shooting up there on Tuesday, I believe, the day it rained.”

“The girls were?” inquired Bernard.

“All the young people, I believe.”

“I think I’d like to see the third floor, too,” said Landis cheerfully.

CHAPTER VII
THE BUTLER’S SUITE

There were no front stairs to the third floor, Miss Mount explained. She led the way to the other end of the hall, toward Anita’s room. Here a door on the right admitted them to a narrow servants’ hall in which they mounted an upward flight to emerge, apparently, upon the back stage of a theatre.