CHAPTER VI.
The Detective at Woodford .-- An Interview with the Discarded Wife of Newton Edwards.
It was on a hot sultry morning in August, about ten days after the robbery at Geneva, that William Everman arrived at the picturesque little city of Woodford.

Woodford was the home of the brother of Mrs.
Newton Edwards, with whom that lady was supposed to have taken refuge after her quarrel with her husband.

Everman proceeded directly to the hotel upon his arrival, and quickly announced himself as a traveling salesman from a neighboring city.

In a casual conversation with the clerk, he ascertained that Edwards and his wife were quite well known in the place, and that the clerk was an intimate acquaintance of the lady's husband.
"Is Edwards stopping here now ?" inquired the detective, in a careless manner.
"No!" answered the clerk, as he fondly curled the ends of a very delicate and scarcely perceptible mustache.

"He hasn't stopped here since his marriage; he usually goes to the home of his wife's family now." "Do you know whether he is in town now ?" "I think not, unless he arrived last night," answered the young man.
"There are several letters here for him, and he would have called for them before this.