21/33 There must be some mistake here." "O no, indeed, sir, there's no mistake. I saw all the luggage labelled with my own eyes, and the direction was New York by steam-packet _Oronoco_; and Mrs.Holbrook had lots of dresses made, and all sorts of things. And as to her husband, sir, her father told me that he'd treated her very badly, and that she never meant to go back to him again to be made unhappy by him. She was going to New York to live with Mr.Nowell all the rest of her life." "There must have been some treachery, some underhand work, to bring this about. Did she go of her own free will ?" "O, dear me, yes, sir. |