But I say, there's another matter.

Have you met Miss Beale ?" "Yes.

She came here this morning.

She gave evidence at the inquest, I am told.

What of her ?" "I asked my sister to spend the evening with her, and she was so alarmed at finding a Chinaman as a fellow-guest in her hotel that she is spending the night in my sister's house." "A plague on all Chinamen!" cried Winter wrathfully.