DONOHUE. Would it have been possible for the murderer to have hidden it
about the room?
CROSBY. I doubt it very much.
DONOHUE. Why?
CROSBY. I don't think there would have been time. I don't see how anyone
could have done it at all. It's all a mystery to me. I told you the
circle was intact. You remember?
(_There is a pause._)
DONOHUE. Yes, I remember. Then if the knife was hidden, it's probably on
the person of the man or woman who used it.
CROSBY. I think so, undoubtedly.
DONOHUE. Mike, 'phone over to the station house and have them send a
matron over here.
(DUNN _exits_ L., _and closes the door after him._)
Now about that light. There was just one lamp turned on as I remember.
CROSBY. Someone turned on the rest of the lights, almost immediately.
DONOHUE. Could the knife have been hidden about the room, since that time?
CROSBY. It's extremely unlikely. We have all been here together. A thing
of that sort would have been seen.
DONOHUE. Then I expect we'll find it without much trouble. (_There is
a pause, as he looks slowly at each person individually in the room._
WILLIAM _puts arm on_ HELEN'S _shoulders as_ DONOHUE _looks at him._)
In the meantime, I think we'll let it remain where it is. (_Crosses
down_ R. _He turns with a gesture which takes them all in.
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