 Below the hand was to be seen a portion of the wrist receding into the background, as though its possessor had leaned forward. Before Leidston had time to make an outcry, two or three of his companions had seen it, and all together they called to Miss Perkins. She at once hastened into the entry, an act that consumed but two or three seconds, and found no one there. The doors were all closed, and the outer one was locked securely. No one had been in the entry, and no one had gone out of it.