What have you heard about that ?" "They do say, sir, that they 'ad some words together the other day, and that the woman's took herself off in a tantrum.

Only you can't believe all you 'ear, you know." "Did they often quarrel ?" "Not to my knowledge, sir.

They were really very quiet, respectable persons for foreigners." I repassed the house of the dead woman, and then regaining the busy Camberwell Road I took an omnibus back to the Hotel Cecil in the Strand where I had put up, tired and disappointed.
Next day I ran down to Chichester, and after some difficulty found the Cheverton College for Ladies, a big old-fashioned house about half-a-mile out of the town on the Drayton Road.

The seminary was evidently a first-class one, for when I entered I noticed how well everything was kept.
To the principal, an elderly lady of a somewhat severe aspect, I said: "I regret, madam, to trouble you, but I am in search of information you can supply.

It is with regard to a certain Elma Heath whom you had as pupil here, and who left, I believe, about two years ago.