Then, again, she stated to her brother that she was going to stay at Duffs for a gossip, whereas the woman says she had evidently no intention of gossiping, and barely gave herself time to order the articles spoken of.

Other witnesses observed her leave Duff's, and walk with a hasty step direct to the field road, and turn down it.

All this does not sound quite clear to me." "There was one thing that did not sound clear to me," broke in Lionel abruptly, "and that was Dinah Roy's evidence.

The woman's half a fool; otherwise I should think she was purposely deceiving us." "A pity but she could see a real ghost!" cried John Massingbird, looking inclined to laugh, "It might cure her for fancy ones.

She's right in one thing, however; poor Luke might have got this clapped on his shoulders had he been here." "Scarcely," dissented Dr.West.