"The look of her face confirms that."

"Let me see! So it does; but we must have an autopsy to prove it."

"I would like to explain before any further measures are taken,
how I came to know that Agatha Webb had money in her house," said
Mr. Sutherland, as they stepped back into the other room. "Two
days ago, as I was sitting with my family at table, old gossip
Judy came in. Had Mrs. Sutherland been living, this old crone
would not have presumed to intrude upon us at mealtime, but as we
have no one now to uphold our dignity, this woman rushed into our
presence panting with news, and told us all in one breath how she
had just come from Mrs. Webb; that Mrs. Webb had money; that she
had seen it, she herself; that, going into the house as usual
without knocking, she had heard Agatha stepping overhead and had
gone up; and finding the door of the sitting-room ajar, had looked
in, and seen Agatha crossing the room with her hands full of
bills; that these bills were big bills, for she heard Agatha cry,
as she locked them up in the cupboard behind the book-shelves, 'A
thousand dollars! That is too much money to have in one's house';
that she, Judy, thought so too, and being frightened at what she
had seen, had crept away as silently as she had entered and run
away to tell the neighbours. Happily, I was the first she found up
that morning, but I have no doubt that, in spite of my express
injunctions, she has since related the news to half the people in
town."

"Was the young woman down yonder present when Judy told this
story?" asked the coroner, pointing towards the yard.