Do--do you remember any woman of the town named--Marie Delano ?" He swallowed hard but brought it out.

"Who may have flourished here fifteen or twenty years ago ?" Spaulding knew that Ruyler's wife had been named Delano, but he refrained from whistling and fixed his sharp honest blue eyes on the opposite wall.
"Nope.

Sounds fancy enough, but she was no Queen of the Red Light District in S.F." "I was convinced she could not have been known under that name.

Do you know of any woman of that sort who was married--possibly--to a man whose first name was James--Jim--and who left abruptly, while she was still young and handsome, just about fifteen years ago ?" "Lord, that's a poser! Do you mean to say she married and retired--landed some simp?
They do once in a while.

Could tell you queer things about certain ancestries in this old town." "No--I don't think that was it.