express any opinion till the wound has been probed. This they are
going to do at once, and when that question is decided, I may feel
it my duty to speak and may ask you to support my story."

"I will tell what I saw," said I.

"Very good. That is all that will be required. We are strangers
to the parties concerned, and only speak from a sense of justice.
It may be that our story will make no impression, and that we shall
be dismissed with but few thanks. But that is nothing to us. If
the woman has been murdered, he is the murderer. With such a
conviction in my mind, there can be no doubt as to my duty."

"We can never make them understand how he looked."

"No. I don't expect to."

"Or his manner as he fled."

"Nor that either."

"We can only describe what we saw him do."

"That's all."

"Oh, what an adventure for quiet people like us! George, I don't
believe he shot her."

"He must have."