"
"I saw it closed!" she said positively. "I had forgotten that,
but now I remember. The axe fell beside me, and I tried to scream,
but I could not. I saw the door closed, very slowly and without a
sound. Then I fainted."
The thing was quite possible. Owing to the small size of the
cabin, and to the fact that it must accommodate two bunks, the door
opened out into the chart-room. Probably the woman had fainted
before I broke the lock of my door and fell into the main cabin.
But a white figure!
"Karen exclaimed," Miss Lee said slowly, "that some one was sitting
on the companion steps?"
"Yes, miss."
"And she thought that it was Mr. Turner?"
"Yes." The stewardess looked quickly at Mrs. Turner, and averted her
eyes. "It may have been all talk, miss, about his--about his
bothering her. She was a great one to fancy that men were following
her about."
Miss Lee got up and came to the door where I was standing.
"Surely we need not be prisoners any longer!" she said in an
undertone. "It is daylight. If I stay here I shall go crazy."
"The murderer is still on the ship," I protested. "And just now
the deck is--hardly a place for women. Wait until this afternoon,
Miss Lee. By that time I shall have arranged for a guard for you.
Although God knows, with every man under suspicion, where we will
find any to trust.
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