he physician arose obediently. Mr. Wynne gathered up the slender,
still figure in his arms, and bore it away to another room. The
doctor bent over Doris, and tested the fluttering heart.

"Only shock," he said finally, when he looked up. "She'll come
round all right in a little while."

"Thank God!" the young man breathed softly.

He stooped and pressed reverent lips to the marble-white brow, then
straightened up and, after one long, lingering look at her, turned
quickly and left the room.

"I have no statement to make," Mr. Czenki was saying, in that level,
unemotional way of his, when Mr. Wynne reentered the room where lay
the dead.

"We are to assume that you are guilty, then?" demanded Chief
Arkwright with cold finality.

"I have nothing to say," replied the expert. His gaze met that of
Mr. Wynne for a moment, then settled on the venerable face of the
old man.

"Guilty?" interposed Mr. Wynne quickly. "Guilty of what?"

Chief Arkwright, without speaking, waved his hand toward the body on
the floor. There was a flash of amazement in the young man's face, a
sudden bewilderment; the diamond expert's countenance was
expressionless.

"You don't deny that you killed him?" persisted the chief accusingly.

"I have nothing to say," said the expert again.

"And you don't deny that you were Red Haney's accomplice?"

"I have nothing to say," was the monotonous answer.

The chief shrugged his shoulders impatiently. Some illuminating
thought shone for an instant in Mr. Wynne's clear eyes and he nodded
as if a question in his mind had been answered.

"Perhaps, Chief, there may be some mistake?" he protested half-heartedly.
"Perhaps this gentleman--what motive would--"

"There's motive enough," interrupted the chief briskly. "We have
this man's description straight from his accomplice, Red Haney,
even to the scar on his face--" He paused abruptly, and regarded
Mr. Wynne through half-closed lids. "By the way," he continued
deliberately, "who are _you?_ What do _you_ know about it?"

"My name is Wynne--E. van Cortlandt Wynne" was the ready response.
"I am directly interested in this case through a long-standing
friendship for Mr. Kellner here, and through the additional fact
that his granddaughter in the adjoining room is soon to become my
wife." There was a little pause. "I may add that I live in New
York, and that Miss Kellner has been stopping there for several days.
She has been accustomed to hear