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The Old Man in the Corner

CHAPTER XXXV
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8 Studio.
"Every one had remarked that he stayed much later in the evening than any one else, and yet no one presumed that he stayed for purposes of work.

Suspicions soon rose to certainty when Mrs.Owen and Arthur Greenhill were seen by one of the glass workmen dining together at Gambia's Restaurant in Tottenham Court Road.
"The workman, who was having a cup of tea at the counter, noticed particularly that when the bill was paid the money came out of Mrs.
Owen's purse.

The dinner had been sumptuous--veal cutlets, a cut from the joint, dessert, coffee and liqueurs.

Finally the pair left the restaurant apparently very gay, young Greenhill smoking a choice cigar.
"Irregularities such as these were bound sooner or later to come to the ears and eyes of Mr.Allman, the landlord of the Rubens Studios; and a month after the New Year, without further warning, he gave her a week's notice to quit his house.
"'Mrs.Owen did not seem the least bit upset when I gave her notice,' Mr.Allman declared in his evidence at the inquest; 'on the contrary, she told me that she had ample means, and had only worked latterly for the sake of something to do.

She added that she had plenty of friends who would look after her, for she had a nice little pile to leave to any one who would know how "to get the right side of her."' "Nevertheless, in spite of this cheerful interview, Miss Bedford, the tenant of No.


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