8/18 She spoke very slowly, but with some trace in her intonation of a north-country dialect. "I wrote last night to stop you, but you've shown indecent haste in coming. There's no place here for a murderer. Get back where you came from, back to your hiding." "My good woman!" Mangan gasped. "This is really too much!" "I've not come to bandy words with lawyers," the woman retorted. |