"Two men," echoed Mr. George. Then turned to me, "Where was Miss Whitehall? Did this Troop fellow say anything about when _she_ left?" Jack looked up from the notes and cast a quick, sharp glance at me. "She’d gone already, of course?" he said. "Yes, she’d gone," I answered. "Anyway, Iola Barry said she always went before six." Then in answer to Mr. George, "I didn’t ask Troop anything about her. I didn’t think there was any need and I was afraid I’d get him curious if I wanted to know too much." "Good girl," came from the old man in a rumbling growl. At that moment there was a ring at the bell. With an exclamation of "O’Mally," Mr. George jumped up and went into the hall. It was O’Mally, red as a lobster, and with an important roll to his walk. He stood in the door and looked at the old man in a triumphant way till you’d suppose he’d got the murderer outside chained to the door handle. Babbitts, who’d come to know him well on the trip to Rochester, said he was a first-rate chap and as sharp as a needle, if you could get over his taking himself so dead serious. When he heard my story some of the starch was taken out of him, but I will say he was so interested that, after the first shock, he forgot to be jealous and was as keen as mustard. "Two men sure enough," he agreed. "And two men who operated together, one of them in that back room." "How do you make that out?" asked Jack. "I’ll show you—I’ve been busy this afternoon." He looked round, selected a gold-legged chair and pulling it to the table, sat down, and taking a fountain pen from his pocket, drew a sheet of paper toward him. "Right next to the church, as you may remember, there are three houses, dwellings. The one nearest the church is occupied by a private party, the two beyond have been thrown together and are run as a boarding house. The last of the two has a rear extension built out to the end of the lot. The day we examined the Azalea Woods Estates I saw that the windows of that extension commanded the side wall of the Black Eagle Building. "This afternoon I went to the boarding house, said I was a writer looking for a quiet place to work, and asked if they had an empty room in the extension. They had one, not yet vacated, but to be in February. It was occupied by an old lady—Miss Darnley—who being there gave me permission to see it.