POLICEMAN.  Certain.

DONOHUE.  Go and get a bath.

POLICEMAN.  ’Tain’t Saturday.

(He exits at L. DONOHUE crosses R. Pause.)

DUNN (down L. After a pause).  Don’t it beat Hell?

DONOHUE.  Why?

DUNN.  That knife couldn’t have flew away.

DONOHUE (coming C.).  We’ll find it eventually.  It’s in this room somewhere.

DUNN.  No, sir, it ain’t.

DONOHUE.  Where have you looked?

DUNN.  Everywhere.

DONOHUE.  Not hidden in the furniture?

DUNN.  I’ll gamble it ain’t.  Took up all the rugs, shook ’em.  Dug through the upholstery in the furniture, looked back of mat on the wall.  It’s not in the bric-a-brac, or whatever these swells call their jugs.

(DONOHUE crosses towards table R.)

DONOHUE.  Unless we find it on the old woman, it’s still in this room.

DUNN.  I suppose you noticed that she opened the window.

DONOHUE (upper end of table R.).  Yes, I noticed that.  Mike, you’ve the makings of a great detective.

DUNN.  I’m a darned good detective now.

(DONOHUE goes to window at R. and calls out.)

DONOHUE.  Say, Doolan!  See anything?

DOOLAN (outside window R.).  A woman put up the window just now.  She stood there a while looking up in the air. (Pause.) Watching the stars, I guess.

DONOHUE.  Have anything in her hand?

DOOLAN.  No, sir.  The light from this lamp was shinin’ right on her.  I could see everything.

DONOHUE.  Throw anything out of the window?

DOOLAN.  No, Inspector.

DONOHUE.  All right.  You’re to arrest anyone leaving the house.

DOOLAN.  I gotcha.

(DONOHUE comes below table R. and turns to DUNN. Crosses to L.C.)

DONOHUE.  We’ll find the knife eventually.  We’ve got to.  Get me Mr.
Crosby, the O’Neill girl—­that’s the order I want to see them in here.

(DUNN exits L. DONOHUE crosses up R. end of chesterfield to chest up R., starts to cross L. below chesterfield.  CROSBY enters down L. and closes the door.  DONOHUE comes down to C. by R. end of chesterfield.)

CROSBY (L.C.).  Your man told me to come here.

DONOHUE.  Yes.  Sorry to have to give orders in your house.  If you don’t like it I can take everyone down to Police Headquarters.  You know what will happen—­what the newspapers will do if I take all these ladies and gentlemen down town.  In the end this way will be the best for you and your friends.  Well, how about it?

CROSBY (L.C.).  Thank you.  I think you’d better regard this house as your own for the present.

DONOHUE (C.).  All right.  If you don’t mind I’ll use this room as a headquarters for the present.