court
in time to bring my daughters home from the distressing scene following
the identification of the dead burglar as Jimmie Turnbull."

"Colonel McIntyre," Penfield turned over several papers until he found
the one he sought. "Mrs. Brewster has testified that while you and she
were sitting in the reception room, Mr. Clymer opened the window. Did
you close it on leaving the room?"

McIntyre reflected before answering. "I cannot remember doing so,"
he stated finally. "Clymer was in rather a hurry to leave, and after
bidding Mrs. Brewster good night, we went straight out to the car and I
drove him to the Saratoga."

"Then you cannot swear to the window having been re-locked?"

"I cannot."

Penfield paused a moment. "Did you return immediately to your house from
the Saratoga apartment?"

"I did" promptly. "My chauffeur, Harris, wasn't well, and I wanted him
to get home."

Penfield thought a moment before putting the next question.

"How did Miss Barbara return from the Grosvenor dance?" he asked.

"She was brought home by friends, Colonel and Mrs. Chase." McIntyre
in turning about in his chair knocked down his walking stick from its
resting place against its side, and the unexpected clatter made several
women, nervously inclined, jump in their seats. Observing them, McIntyre
smiled and was still smiling amusedly when Penfield addressed him.

"Did you observe many lights burning in your house when you returned?"
asked Penfield.

"No, only those which are usually left lit at night."

"Was your daughter Helen awake?"

"I do not know. Her room was in darkness when I walked past her door on
my way to bed."

Penfield removed his eye-glasses and polished them on his silk
handkerchief. "I have no further questions to ask. Colonel, you are
excused."

McIntyre bowed gravely to him and as he left the platform came face to
face with his family physician, Dr. Stone.

Penfield, who was an old acquaintance of the physician's, signed to him
to come on the platform. After the preliminaries had been gone through,
he shifted his chair around, the better to face Stone.

"Did you accompany the Misses McIntyre to the police court on Tuesday
morning?" he asked.

"I did," responded the physician, "at Miss Barbara's request. She said
her sister was not very well and they disliked going alone to the police
court."

"Did she state why she did not ask her father to go with them?"

"Only that he had not fully recovered fro