I don't believe I was able to say anything except that I'd make him no promises about telling or not telling of it. He made his call to headquarters, and the aquarium thing was after that, I guess--yes, it was. What he testified about just sitting there till the others came--that was true. I don't think he looked at me once after that remark I made--something about a spring morning warmed up in the oven." "Yes, that seems to have made an impression on him." _And yet after all, Cecil, wouldn't we have done better to show Rankin as just one more creature caught in a drift of confusion, half ape, half civilized, like the rest of us?--or maybe we did succeed in doing that--I wouldn't know. LaSalle and Miss Wainwright look quite angry on my behalf. The Face of the Hoag expresses a certain disappointment: 'Wha'd he give up so easy for, and him a cop?' The Face of Fielding says quite truthfully that it hasn't a damn thing to do with the death of Ann Doherty._ "Well, Callista, I suppose Gage and the others arrived quite soon, as he testified. Do you want to add anything about that?" "No, I don't think of anything important. It was all about as Rankin told it, and then I was taken to Mr. Lamson's office." "And questioned there--do you happen to remember how long?" "I think, from about two o'clock until seven in the evening, when I signed that transcript." "Callista, I will ask you: was there ever any genuine hostility between you and Ann Doherty?" "When two women want the same man, there's bound to be, Mr. Warner. As a person--if it were possible for me to think of her apart from Jimmy--I had nothing against her. It's true to say I hardly knew her. We had nothing in common. She was a sweet, harmless girl who never did the slightest thing to rouse any hostility in me." "And I'll ask you, Callista: did you ever, at any time at all, entertain any sort of intention of doing away with her, or in fact of doing her any kind of harm?" "No. No, Mr. Warner. The worst I ever wished against her was that she would--let Jimmy go." "Callista, after signing that transcript in Mr. Lamson's office, did you receive medical attention?" "Oh--yes, I did. I sort of blacked out, after signing it. Came to in some kind of infirmary room--in this building, I guess it is. The police doctor was--all right." "Do you recall seeing me that evening?" "Yes, you were there at the infirmary, soon after I came to myself." "You remember my explanation of why I couldn't be there sooner?" "Yes, you told me you'd been out of town, and Edith couldn't get word to you until after six o'clock." "Did you see your mother or your stepfather that day?" "No. They came, I understand, but weren't allowed to see me."