Here is her name and address." And he slipped a small scrap of paper into the District Attorney's hand.

"What she will say is this, for I think I have very thoroughly sounded her: First, that she is Mrs.
Taylor's most intimate friend.

This is conceded by all who know her.
Secondly, that while her intimacy does not extend back to their girlhood days--Mrs.Taylor being an Englishwoman by birth and remarkably reticent as to her former life and experiences--she has one story to tell of that time which answers the question I have given you.

She got it from Mrs.
Taylor herself, and in this manner.

They were engaged in talking one day about our Western mountains and the grandeur of scenery generally, when Mrs.Taylor let fall some remark about the Alps, which led this friend of hers to ask if she had ever seen them.