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Updated: May 24, 2025
It is hard to say which of her two attitudes was the more impressive: the flaming anger provoked by the sight of the unconscious girl in my arms, or the tenderly sweet manner with which she presently turned to minister to her. The voice which bade me leave Genevieve to her care was actually gentle. Very reluctantly, I withdrew with Stodger into the hall.
After Stodger had given his brief testimony and returned to his post in the upper hall, I descended to the library and took a seat beside Dr. De Breen at one end of the big library table. As I did so I observed that Mr. Fluette was taking stock of me with a keen sidewise look.
I found my tongue by and by, and voiced some inane remark to the effect that she might most assuredly "come up," if she had the least inclination to do so, but, on the other hand, that I was more than willing to "come down." Which I did, when she made known her choice by sitting down in the settle Stodger and I had occupied some hours earlier. But I moved down the steps deep in meditation.
With his concluding words, Stodger pointed up to the landing, through whose balusters I could see a hand and a part of a motionless human form stretched out at full length upon the floor. "Slugged over the head with a heavy iron candlestick; find it lying there by him. Think of all that wheat and them ships crunching through the ice. Say, it's pretty tough, ain't it?
I was rather touchy about my size; I could n't help being a giant, and the little ferret of a sawbones knew it. I had only one means of revenge. He was a great stickler for maintaining the dignity of his profession, and I always called him "Doc." Stodger was to remain up-stairs until called for, when I would relieve him during the brief period required for his testimony.
Maillot," announced Stodger, with all the absurd importance of a conscientious flunkey. One, a tall girl in brown furs and with truly wonderful hazel eyes, came rapidly, gracefully, into the room, her companion following more sedately, and then stopped suddenly, as if petrified. She stood a moment this haughty, handsome maid a lovely picture of bewildered astonishment.
Fact. Watched me steady all the time I you know looked at the body." Stodger stopped abruptly, with the manner of one to whom has occurred a sudden brilliant idea. He thumped one fat knee with a pudgy hand, and whispered with suppressed eagerness: "By jinks, Swift! I have it! I 'll get Burke Alexander Stilwell.
During a brief pause I hesitated over whether I should rouse Stodger; but so slight a warrant decided me not to. A shout from any part of the house, should he be needed, would accomplish the purpose quite as well. So I merely stood motionless and listened. The circumstance that my straining ears could now hear nothing whatever was in itself ominous.
All the time you were gone I could glimpse 'em now and then first one place, then another slipping and sliding through the bushes, trying to keep hid, y' know." As may be imagined, I was profoundly interested. "What did they look like?" I asked. Stodger shook his head. "Bushes too thick. No leaves; but they would n't come close enough for me to get a good look. H'm. Watching the house, all right."
If he had any intention of moving in that direction, however, he quickly changed his mind; for Maillot and I followed him through the doorway, down the length of the roomy panelled hall, to another door on the same side of the house as the one we had just quitted. I could hear a murmur of voices across the hall, where Stodger was entertaining the reporters.
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