Why Lord Hartledon don't have him taken up on suspicion of that murder, is odd to me." "You'd better hold your tongue about that suspicion," interposed Mirrable.

"I have cautioned you before, _I_ shouldn't like to breathe a word against a desperate man; I should go about in fear that he might hear of it, and revenge himself." In came the clerk.

"I don't see a sign of any one about," he said; "and I'm sure whoever it was could not have had time to get away.

You must have been mistaken, Mrs.Jones." "Mistaken in what, pray ?" "That any man was there.

You got confused, and fancied it, perhaps.