We were all so shocked and frightened, I hardly know what was said
or done for a while. Then somebody says--I don't know who to this
minute, 'Where is Miss Catheron?' Nobody made answer. Says the person
again: 'Where is Miss Catheron?' I think it frightened Hooper. He
turned round, and said he would go for her. He went--we waited. He
came back with her in a short while, and we all looked at her. She
was nearly as much like a dead woman as my lady herself. I never saw
such a look on any face before--her eyes seemed dazed in her head,
like. She hardly seemed to know what she was saying or doing, and
she didn't seem a bit surprised. Hooper said to her: 'Shall I send
for Sir Victor?' She answered, still in that stunned sort of way: 'Yes,
send for Sir Victor, and the doctor, and the police at once.' She was
shivering like one in the chills, as she said it. She said she could
do nothing more, and she left us and went back to her room. It was
then I first missed the dagger. I can swear it was lying on the table
beside a book, when my lady first fell asleep; when I looked round,
the book was still there, the dagger gone."

The blood-stained dagger found by the policeman, was here produced and
identified at once by the witness.

"It is the same--I have had it in my hand a hundred times, and seen it
with her. Oh, my lady--my lady--my dear lady!"

The sight of the blood-incrusted weapon, seemed totally to unnerve the
witness. She broke out into hysterical sobbing, which nothing could
quiet. It being now noon, the court adjourned till two o'clock.

Jane Pool was then again called, and resumed her important testimony,
in the same rapid, narrative, connected style as before.