"What have you two been doing up there?" Bobby asked Graham.
"Rawlins is hard-headed," Graham answered in a low, worried tone.
He wouldn't meet Bobby's eyes. He seemed to seek an escape.
"Where's Katherine?" he asked.
"Doctor Groom says she went to the back part of the house. Why won't you tell me what you were doing?"
"Only keeping Rawlins from trying to make more mischief," Graham answered.
He wouldn't explain.
"Aren't there enough riddles in this house?" Doctor Groom asked with frank disapproval.
Rawlins and Robinson joined them, sparing Graham a further defence. The district attorney had an air of fresh resolution. He was about to speak when the front door opened quietly, framing the blackness of the court. They started forward, seeing no one.
Silas Blackburn made a slow, shrinking movement, crying out: