CHAPTER II.
THE LADY IN NUMBER THREE The boy was soon found and proved to be more observing in matters of dress than Mr.Ransom.He described with apparent accuracy both the color and cut of the garments worn by the lady who had flitted away so mysteriously.

The former was brown, all brown; and the latter was of the tailor-made variety, very natty and becoming.

"What you would call 'swell,'" was the comment, "if her walk hadn't spoiled the hang of it.
How she did walk! Her shoes must have hurt her most uncommon.

I never did see any one hobble so." "How's that?
She hobbled, and her husband didn't notice it ?" "Oh, he had hurried on ahead.

She was behind him, and she walked like this." The pantomime was highly expressive.
"That's a point," muttered Gerridge.