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Updated: May 4, 2025
The killer had the forethought to use putty that was of about the same color as old putty. But I saw on the sill some minute grains of glass glinting in the light. "Mrs. Horsnall, without knowing why I asked the question assured me that there had been no repairs, such as replacing panes of glass. When I leaned out of the window, I saw the scars in the cement. Perfectly obvious.
"Mrs. Horsnall," asked Professor Brierly, "who cleans these rooms?" "The maid, Ella." "When did she clean these rooms last?" "Yesterday afternoon." "Are you sure she cleaned them properly?" "She did that, or she would have heard from me. I looked at the rooms myself after she was through. I always look after the work of the help around here."
"Who takes care of these rooms, Mr. Brasher; I mean who cleans them?" "I don't know, but there's a sort of housekeeper. I'll get her up here." "Do so, please." A thin, middle-aged woman, dressed in somber black, appeared. She looked from one to the other of the group of men. There was no emotion visible on her thin features, except for a tinge of defiance. She was introduced as Mrs. Horsnall.
She pointed to the ventilator. "How is it there is no screen on the window? There are mosquitoes around here, are there not?" "Yes, sometimes. But Mr. Miller never opened the window, except at night sometimes, when there wasn't any light in the room and that only for a short time. You see, he was queer that way. He was afraid of being shot at." "Did Mr. Morris have any revolvers, Mrs. Horsnall?"
"Yes, he had three or four." "Is that one of them?" "I don't know. I wouldn't know one from the other. I never touched them; I was afraid of them." "And you are quite certain, Mrs. Horsnall, that no repairs were made in the rooms since last spring and that no one except you, the maid, Ella, and Mr. Miller himself were in these rooms since last spring?" "I'm sure of that, sir."
No one present doubted that she did a thorough job of looking after things. "Have any repairs been done in these rooms recently, Mrs. Horsnall?" "Repairs, how do you mean?" "Well, such things as locks, hinges, lights, windows, and so forth." "No. We've got a man of all work who takes care of such things. He hasn't been in these rooms since last spring; he replaced that fan in the hole there."
"Will you send the maid, Ella, up here, Mrs. Horsnall, and, thank you." Ella, a sulky young woman of Irish extraction, came and verified everything Mrs. Horsnall had said. Professor Brierly took her over practically the same ground as he had the older woman. Professor Brierly dismissed her and went back to the window, which he submitted once more to a careful scrutiny.
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