CHAPTER II.
THE CRIME The kitchen was rather spacious, and as neat and clean as the busy hands of Mrs.Pill could make it.

An excellent range polished to excess occupied one end of the room; a dresser with blue and white china adorned the other.

On the outside wall copper pots and pans, glittering redly in the firelight, were ranged in a shining row.
Opposite this wall, a door led into the interior of the house, and in it was the outer entrance.

A large deal table stood in the center of the room, and at this with their chairs drawn up, Geraldine and the cook worked.

The former was trimming a picture-hat of the cheapest and most flamboyant style, and the latter darned a coarse white stocking intended for her own use.