in a very steady voice told how they found the body, and she was questioned and cross-questioned as to the reason why she should have become so interested in the sight of an apparently sleeping girl as to accost her.
It was a most unusual thing.
Did she not think that it had been suggested by the young man who accompanied her?
Penelope's cheeks burned and she became very indignant at their efforts to connect Richard more closely with the case, and she related all that had transpired after they spoke of the girl with such minuteness and ease, that it was hinted afterwards that she had studied the story in order to protect the culprit.
Poor Richard came next.
His story did not differ from Penelope's, and while no one said in so many words that they suspected him of knowing more
