He assured
me that I could do nothing. Then Mrs. Allen, the housekeeper,
led me upstairs again. It was all like some dreadful dream."
"Can you give us any idea how long your husband had been
downstairs before you heard the shot?"
"No, I cannot say. He went from his dressing room, and I did not
hear him go. He did the round of the house every night, for he
was nervous of fire. It is the only thing that I have ever known
him nervous of."
"That is just the point which I want to come to, Mrs. Douglas.
You have known your husband only in England, have you not?"
"Yes, we have been married five years."
"Have you heard him speak of anything which occurred in America
and might bring some danger upon him?"
Mrs. Douglas thought earnestly before she answered. "Yes," she
said at last, "I have always felt that there was a danger hanging
over him. He refused to discuss it with me. It was not from
want of confidence in me--there was the most complete love and
confidence between us--but it was out of his desire to keep all
alarm away from me. He thought I should brood over it if I knew
all, and so he was silent.
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