"Then what happened?"

"Why, I rushed to pick him up. Everything was confusion. I recall
someone behind me saying, 'Here, boy, take all these papers off
the table and carry them into my office before they get lost in
the excitement.' I think it was Bruce's voice. The next moment I
heard someone say, 'Stand back, Mrs. Parker has fainted.' But I
didn't pay much attention, for I was calling to someone not to
get a doctor over the telephone, but to go down to the fifth
floor where one has an office. I made Mr. Parker as comfortable
as I could. There wasn't much I could do. He seemed to want to
say something to me, but he couldn't talk. He was paralysed, at
least his throat was. But I did manage to make out finally what
sounded to me like, 'Tell her I don't believe the scandal, I
don't believe it.' But before he could say whom to tell he had
again become unconscious, and by the time the doctor arrived he
was dead. I guess you know everything else as well as I do."

"You didn't hear the shot fired from any particular direction?"
asked Kennedy.

"No, sir."

"Well, where do you think it came from?"

"That's what puzzles me, sir. The only thing I can figure out is
that it was fired from the outside office--perhaps by some
customer who had lost money and sought revenge. But no one out
there heard it either, any more than they did in the directors'