"Now we come to one of the impressions which you could not testify to as a fact, but which may be of far more value. Did he say he had a letter to write in a way that makes you think he may have changed his mind?"
"No," she said. "I understood, from the way in which he said it, that it was the important thing he had to do before going to bed. I went away satisfied that he would write the letter early and then get to bed. He certainly meant that the next day was to be a busy one."
"Then he probably was killed, very soon, since he had not written the letter."
"I think so."
"Now, if you please, let me send for Jonathan again."
When the hired man came, he glanced over his shoulder in an uneasy way, as if he did not more than half like the room. Trafford motioned him to a chair and without any preliminaries suddenly demanded:
"At what hour are you going to testify that you went to bed that night?"
