But the next remark of Geraldine made her start.

"Mr.Clancy's father was a carpenter," said the girl.
"My father was a carpenter," remarked Susan, sadly.
"Ah," cried Mrs.Pill with alacrity, "now you're speaking sense.

Ain't he alive ?" "No.

He was poisoned!" The three servants, having the love of horrors peculiar to the lower classes, looked up with interest.

"Lor!" said Thomas, speaking for the first time and in a thick voice, "who poisoned him ?" "No one knows.