“You left him at ten o’clock, then, and did not see him again that night?”

“That is correct.”

“And you have no idea how he was occupied from ten o’clock, on?”

“I have not.”

“That’s all at present, Miss Burt.”

The girl left the witness-stand looking greatly troubled.

But the suspicious Mr. Fessenden firmly believed she looked troubled because it made her more prettily pathetic.

He wasn’t entirely right in this, but neither was Dorothy Burt quite as ingenuous as she appeared.