As to Miss Vale," here the smile vanished,
"I have been unable to make up my mind just how far she is concerned,
if at all. However, perhaps twenty-four hours will make it all clear
enough. In the meantime I will say this to you: Don't jump to harsh
conclusions, Pen. You know this young lady well. How far do you
suppose she would go to the perpetrating of a downright crime?"
"Not a step!" answered Pendleton, promptly.
"Then," said Ashton-Kirk, "until we know positively that she has done
so, stick to that."
CHAPTER VII
THE SCHWARTZ-MICHAEL BAYONET
As Ashton-Kirk and Pendleton sat in the former's library that evening
after dinner, there came a knock upon the door and Fuller entered
briskly. In his hand he carried a paper parcel which he laid upon a
stand at the investigator's elbow.
"This is the bayonet, sir," said he. "Mr. Stillman, the coroner,
objected to letting me have it at first, but changed his mind after I
had talked to him for a while."
"Did you take the photograph to Berg in Christie Place?"
"Yes, sir. He recognized it at once as that of the person in
question."
"And you made inquiries upon the other point?"
"I did. Neither Mr. Stillman nor any of the men who removed the body
of Hume have been out of town within a week.
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