cially."

"Where did you go?" insisted Bristow.

"I took a walk. That was all. I didn't feel like sleeping."

"Did you see anybody while you were walking?"

"Not that I remember. Why?"

"Because, if you did, it might be advisable for you to remember. It may
become necessary for you to prove an alibi."

"Oh, that!" the young man said with a nervous laugh.

"Yes. Can't you tell us where you went?"

"I wandered around, up and down the down-town streets. That was all."

"Well, remember," Bristow cautioned him. "If you can produce two or three
people who saw you down there, it may help you a whole lot."

"Oh, that's all right, I haven't done anything against the law. The
idea's absurd."

"Mr. Bristow's right," Greenleaf put in. "We'll have to know more about
how you spent those two hours. Really, we will. If you try to leave town,
you'll be arrested. My men have their orders."

Greenleaf had forgotten about the ring found in the young man's hotel
room, but Bristow hadn't.

Morley went slowly down Manniston Road. There was a cold moisture upon
his forehead.

CHAPTER VII

MISS FULTON IS HYSTERICAL

The chief and his assistant were received by Miss Kelly, the trained
nurse. Bristow wasted no time in what he considered to be the crucial
search for more evidence. In speaking to her he exercised all his
persuasiveness, all the suggestion of power and authority that he could
force into his voice and expression. And yet, he gave her, as he had
given Mrs. Allen, the impression that he deferred to her and prized her
opinions.

"Isn't there something you can tell us?" he asked, holding her glance
with his own.

"What do you mean?"

She was a strong, capable-looking woman of twenty-six years or so.

"Like every good citizen," he answered smoothly, "you want exactly what
we want, a clearing up of all this muddle. I thought, perhaps, there
might be something you'd heard or seen. Isn't there?"

"No; nothing, sir," she returned, true to her professional teaching that
a nurse is forbidden to reveal the secrets of the sickroom.

"You'll be called as a witness at the inquest," he hazarded, and was
rewarded by a look of uncertainty in her eyes. "Your duty to the law is
above everything else," he added.

"I've heard Miss Fulton say only one thing," she admitted reluctantly.
"She's said it several times while under the influence of the sedatives
she's had."

"What was it?"

"Nothing that made any sense. I