." He leaned b

En regularity of feature and delicate skin, was very pale now, and
around her eyes were dark rings that spoke of sleepless nights. Grief
and mental shock were preying upon this girl's mind. "She is not the one
to make a confidant of those around her," thought Muller to himself.
Then he added aloud: "If
it does not distress you too much to talk about
this sad affair, I will be very grateful if you will answer a few
questions." "I will tell you whatever I can," said the girl in the same
low even
tone in which she had first spoken. "Miss Graumann tells me that you
have come from Vienna to take up this case. It is only natural that we
should want to give you every
assistance
in our power." "What is your opinion about it?" was Muller's

next remark, made rather suddenly after a moment's pause.
The directness

of the question seemed to shake the girl
out of her enforced calm. A slow flush mounted into her pale cheeks and
then died away, again leaving them whiter than before. "I do not
know--oh, I do not know what to believe." "But you
do not think

Mr. Graumann
capable of such a crime, do you?" "Not of the robbery, of course
not; that would be absurd! But has it been clearly proven that there is
a robbery? Might it not have been--might they not have--" "You mean,
might they not have quarreled? Of course there is that possibility. And
that is why
I wanted
to speak to you. You are the one person who
could possibly throw light on this

subject. Was there any other reason beyond the

dead man's past that would render your guardian unwilling
to have you marry him?" Again
the slow flush mounted to Eleonora Roemer's cheeks and her