5:46 a.m. — Mrs. Endicott Cannot Be Found
Lieutenant Valcour stepped across the corridor and rapped on the door of Mrs. Endicott’s room. There was no response. He rapped again, and still there was no response. He turned the knob and the door swung inward.
The room was empty.
He closed the door and called to Cassidy, who was at the other end of the corridor.
“Sir?” said Cassidy, when he had joined him.
“You’ve been out here all the while, haven’t you, Cassidy?”
“Except when I went upstairs to get the housekeeper, sir.”
“That’s right, you did. Come inside here for a minute with me. There are some questions I want to ask you.”
They went into Endicott’s room.
“Sure, it’s good to see the daylight again, Lieutenant. Will we be cleared up here soon?”
“I have a feeling that we’ll be finished pretty soon now. Tell me, Cassidy, was it you or Hansen fired first at Hollander?”
“Lieutenant, Hansen and I have been disputing that very point. We all but came to blows over it, we did.”
“Why so?”