There's a notice in yesterday's _Wells Gazette_, and a reward of fifty pounds for any one who can give any information about him sufficient to lead to identification." "If you think," I said, "that you can earn the pounds, pray do not let me stand in your way." She looked at me with a fixed intentness which I found peculiarly irritating.
"You don't think that I care about the fifty pounds," she said, coming over and standing by my chair.
"Then why take any notice of the matter at all ?" I said.

"All that you can disclose is that he came from the land and not from the sea, and that he asked where I lived.

Why trouble yourself or me about the matter at all?
There really isn't any necessity.

Some one else probably saw him besides you, and they will soon find their way to this woman." "It was only to me," she murmured, "that he spoke of you." "Do you believe," I asked, "that I murdered him ?" She shuddered.
"No, of course I don't," she declared.
"Then why all this nervousness and mystery ?" I asked.

"I have no fear of anything which might happen.