“I didn’t know that, Auntie! How dreadful!” she gasped.
Instantly Miss Cornelia regretted her impulse of confidence. She tried to pass the matter off with tart humor.
“Don’t tell Lizzie,” she said. “She’d yell like a siren. It’s the only thing she does like a siren, but she does it superbly!”
For a moment it seemed as if Miss Cornelia had succeeded. The Doctor smiled; Dale sat down again, her expression altering from one of anxiety to one of amusement. Miss Cornelia opened her lips to dilate further upon Lizzie’s eccentricities.
But just then there was a splintering crash of glass from one of the French windows behind her!
CHAPTER SIX
DETECTIVE ANDERSON TAKES CHARGE
“What’s that?”
“Somebody smashed a windowpane!”
“And threw in a stone!”
“Wait a minute, I’ll—” The Doctor, all alert at once, ran into the alcove and jerked at the terrace door.