e my
assistance."

"Was this unusual?"

"It was, a bit, Sir. I 'most always helped her to undress, Sir."

"And you went to your room at once?"

"Yes, Sir. I did, Sir, and to sleep, Sir."

"How were you awakened?"

"I heard someone crying 'Help! Help!' I threw on some clothes as quick
as I could, Sir, and ran out into the hall. Then I seen the Master run
into the hallway of the west wing, and Gibson after him, and I follows
them. After that, Sir, I went for a candle."

The testimony of the other servants was similar to that of Gibson and
the maid. They had heard someone crying for help, and had rushed into
the hall.

Sergeant McQuade's testimony was in some ways the most interesting of
all. I began to see that this astute gentleman had by no means been as
frank with me as I had been with him, and had made a number of little
discoveries of which I had no knowledge up to now. He testified to
finding Miss Temple's handkerchief in Mr. Ashton's room on the morning
of the murder. He testified to finding the window at the end of the
hallway unbolted. He produced photographs and measurements of the bloody
handprint found upon Mr. Ashton's window sill and compared them with
measurements made of my own hands earlier in the day. It appeared that,
while the handprint was small, it could readily have been made by my
hand, which, like that of most artists, is rather below medium size. He
testified that he found similar marks of blood upon the window sill of
the hall window, pointing inward, also scratches in the paint evidently
made by someone climbing through the window from without. He testified
to finding footprints upon the porch roof, made by someone either
wearing soft slippers or in their stocking feet. These prints were made
in the thin wet mold which covered the surface of the roof. He found
traces of this mold on the white window sill of the hall window, and
traced prints of it upon the polished floor of the hallway, from the
window as far as the doorway of my room. He could not find any prints of
this nature within my room, nor could he say that the person making them
did not go beyond my room, but only that the footprints could not be
traced beyond my door. The walking of many feet in the hallway between
Mr. Ashton's door and mine had obliterated the marks and prevented his
tracing them beyond that point, if they had indeed gone beyond it. They
were small footprints, and somewhat indistinct, yet showing clearly a