Paredes bowed.
"You dislike me, Miss Katherine, but don't be afraid for yourself or Bobby. I think I can tell you how the evidence got in your room. I can answer nearly everything. There's one point—"
He broke off, glancing at his watch.
"Extraordinary courage!" he mused enigmatically. "I scarcely understand it."
Rawlins looked at him suspiciously.
"All this explaining may be a trick, Mr. Robinson. The man's slippery."
"I've had to be slippery to work under your noses," Paredes laughed. "By the way, Bobby, did you hear a woman crying about the time I opened this door?"
"Yes. It sounded like the voice we heard at the grave."
"I thought I heard it from the library," Robinson put in. "Then the rumpus up here started, and I forgot about it."
"The woman in black is very brave," Paredes mused. "We should have had a visit from her long before this."