"And if you're going to ask me any more questions about who and what I am, young man, I'll save you the trouble.

I was with Major Stilman a many years, and before that I was store-keeper at one London hotel, and linen-keeper at another, and before that I lived at home with my father, who was a respectable farmer in Sussex.

And what all this has to do with what we're here for, I should like----" "Just give me the names of the two hotels you were at in London, will you ?" asked Brereton.
"One was the _Royal Belvedere_ in Bayswater, and the other the _Mervyn Crescent_ in Kensington," replied Miss Pett.

"Highly respectable, both of 'em." "And you come originally from--where in Sussex ?" "Oakbarrow Farm, near Horsham.

Do you want to know any----" "I shan't trouble you much longer," said Brereton suavely.