CHAPTER XVI THE CORONER'S QUESTIONSERNEST CHAPIN found himself alone with Dorothy for a moment, on the Terrace.
"I can't talk about it!" he exclaimed, as if in agony. "How can those other men discuss it as if it were an everyday business affair? They propose coroners and detectives as if they were ordering workmen about."
"I feel as you do, Ernest," said Dorothy. "All this discussion drives me frantic. I can't bring myself even to think about it calmly. And Leila is crazy to do 'detective work,' as she calls it, and find out who—who ... "
"Don't try to say it, dear; and don't judge Leila too harshly. You know she was not so close to Justin as you were."
For the moment, Chapin seemed to ignore his own love for Dorothy in his rush of emotion for poor Arnold, but the next instant a realiz
