onsciousness the next day and found myself in bed, with a
trained nurse in attendance."

Everyone in the court room followed Goddard's story with breathless
interest. Nancy never took her eyes from his face; she sat as if
hypnotized.

"What did you trip over, Major?" inquired the judge advocate.

There was a perceptible pause; then came the answer, "A foot-stool."

"Could you tell whether the sound you thought you heard in the room was
made by a man or a woman?" asked the judge advocate, laying down his
pen.

"I could not, sir. It was too intangible to even locate."

"I have finished my direct examination, Mr. Senator. Have you any
questions to ask the witness?"

Warren wrote his message and gave it to the judge advocate.

"Did you know that Captain Lloyd was asleep in the next room?"

"No, sir; I did not even know he had returned to the city," replied
Goddard.

Warren handed another slip to the judge advocate, who read its contents
aloud: "His hat and overcoat were found in the sitting-room later that
night. You were in that room, were you not?"

"I was, Mr. Senator; but you must remember I could not see. I did not
pass my hand over all the chairs or other furniture in the room;
otherwise I might have found his overcoat and hat."

"Could not your attendant, Donnally, have seen them?" wrote Warren.

"Certainly, Mr. Senator; but Donnally did not enter the room with me.
He was standing in the hall when I went inside and closed the door."

"When did you first hear of Captain Lloyd's death?" was Warren's next
question.

"Colonel Baker came in the next afternoon and told me."

"I have no further questions to ask this witness," announced Warren,
after consulting Nancy.

When Goddard retired, his place was taken by his attendant, Donnally.
He stated briefly that he had only accompanied Major Goddard to the
sitting-room door; that he had not looked into the room, being in a
hurry to return downstairs and get something to eat. No, he did not
think it strange that Major Goddard did not ring for him. The major had
said he was not hungry, and that he did not wish to be disturbed. He
was not told that Captain Lloyd had returned. He knew absolutely
nothing of what had happened upstairs in his master's room, because he
had spent his entire time in the kitchen until he was sent for by the
Secret Service agent, Symonds. Warren declined to cross-examine
Donnally, and he was excused.

Symonds was then recalled to th