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Yes, but it gave a very feeble light.
"Q. Then, mademoiselle, tell us what happened.
"A. I do not know whether I had been long asleep, but suddenly I
awoke--and uttered a loud cry.
"M. Stangerson. Yes--a horrible cry--'Murder!'--It still rings
in my ears.
"Q. You uttered a loud cry?
"A. A man was in my chamber. He sprang at me and tried to strangle
me. I was nearly stifled when suddenly I was able to reach the
drawer of my night-table and grasp the revolver which I had
placed in it. At that moment the man had forced me to the foot
of my bed and brandished in over my head a sort of mace. But
I had fired. He immediately struck a terrible blow at my head.
All that, monsieur, passed more rapidly than I can tell it, and
I know nothing more.
"Q. Nothing?--Have you no idea as to how the assassin could
escape from your chamber?
"A. None whatever--I know nothing more. One does not know what
is passing around one, when one is unconscious.
"Q. Was the man you saw tall or short, little or big?
"A.


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