"Did he seem alarmed?"

"No, sir. Not knowing what I knew, he didn't seemed alarmed.
But he seemed agitated, for of course it was most unusual not
finding Mr. Crawford in his own room."

"How did Louis show his agitation?" broke in Mr. Orville.

"Well, sir, perhaps he wasn't to say agitated,--he looked more
blank, yes, as you might say, blank."

"Was he trembling?" persisted Mr. Orville, "was he pale?" and the
coroner frowned slightly at this juror's repeated
inquisitiveness.

"Louis is always pale," returned the butler, seeming to make an
effort to speak the exact truth.

"Then of course you couldn't judge of his knowledge of the
matter," Mr. Orville said, with an air of one saying something of
importance.

"He had no knowledge of the matter, if you mean Mr. Crawford's
death," said Lambert, looking disturbed and a little bewildered.

"Tell your own story, Lambert," said Coroner Monroe, rather
crisply. "We'll hear what Louis has to say later."

"Well, sir, then I took Louis to the office, and we both saw the