CHAPTER 17DAPHNE LAKE’S explanation of her activities was simple enough, as it turned out, but it nearly caused a riot in the courtroom. De Forrest Blaine objected .time and again to its admission as evidence, and Judge Garth overruled him time and again. I don’t know that it was so much on the strictest grounds of legal procedure as that it was obviously the only way that it could ever be accurately known what had happened behind those shuttered windows of Wyndham House.
And in one sense the facts that she told in her clear matter-of-fact voice were entirely to Chase Wyndham’s advantage. It all depended on how they were interpreted. There certainly was nothing in them to add to the picture formed by Lieutenant Kelly and Mr. Taylor of his criminal guilt.
Considerably condensed, her story
