The Lighted Way
th was coming quickly, her eyes and her fingers seemed to be clinging to his as though for support. Her touch, her intimate prese
he is dead?" s
assuringly. "I saw no weapon a
closed
at," she declared, "and I saw som
e, if you like,"
ers grip
hat you recognized the hand-that it was the sam
tly. "It was a crude-looking affair, but the stone
nly the r
h. It was foolish of me, perhaps, to say anything about it, and yet-and yet
come through her t
ny one else. Indeed, there are othe
ond. He chanced to look into her fac
ll," he
e sat up. She was evid
s. Find out exactly what has happened a
od up
that you will
ter when I know what really has happened. You mus
staurant, quite alone, for every one had streamed across the courtyard to see what the disturbance was. The side of the room adjoining the stairs
is that?" de
ognized hi
Starling-the man
g!" she
in," Arnold continued. "He
ook he
e while you are away. Pe
met Starling upon the
atherley with you?"
e in the Grill Room. I believe that she was real
t af
d impossible that there was an
med. "Rosario was stabbed outside
plexion seemed sudden
rio stabbed?"
of it," Arnold continued. "He was stabbed just as he
wh
e swift crispness of a pistol
to ask for particulars. Will
e affected him strangely. His head was thrown a little back, his nostri
se. Come back as soon as you can a
ole of the vestibule where the affair had happened was closed, and the only information which it was possible to collect Arnold gathered from the excited conversations of the little knots of people standing around. I
osario?" h
nly for a moment. The t
vely. "He was stabbed to the hear
from their white faces. Fenella sank back in her chair with a little sob which might almost have bee
he muttered. "A
te," Arnold told them. "They seem to think that h
her feet, glanced for a moment in the looking-glass,
shall not forget it-indeed I shall not. Mr. Starl
autiful than ever now with their mist of risen tears. But there were other th
ad such a shock," he said. "Is the
. Then for the first time Arnold realized the s
of what was likely to happen!" he exclaime
spoke for sev
y. "You were told to wait inside the re
hiver. His mission had been to sav