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'I have always said "No" hitherto,' replied the wo I could say noin a common everyday way now the occurrence is past, I believe a few things of soh I doubt if they were papers) were left in a workbox she had, because she talked about it to Mr Brown, and was rather angry at what occurred--you see, she had a temper by all account, and so I didn't like to remind the lady of this workbox when she came the other day with her husband' 'And about the workbox?' 'Well, from as casually dropped, I think Mrs Manston had a few articles of furniture she didn't want, and when she was leaving they were put in a sale just by As were torkboxes very much alike One of these she intended to sell, the other she didn't, and Mr Broho collected the things together, took the wrong one to the sale' 'What was in it?' 'O, nothing in particular, or of any value--so et it back--she said the bills orth nothing to her or anybody else, but that she should have liked to keep the box because her husband gave it her when they were first married, and if he found she had parted with it, he would be vexed' 'Did Mrs Manston, when she called recently with her husband, allude to this, or inquire for it, or did Mr Manston?' 'No--and I rather wondered at it But she seeotten it--indeed, she didn'tto his; and he probably had never been told anything about it' 'Whose sale were these articles of hers taken to?' 'Who was the auctioneer? Mr Halway His place is the third turning from the end of that street you see there Anybody will tell you the shop--his name is written up' Edent off to follow up his clue with a proed will to do his utht, the tall and cloaked man, who had watched hi in breathless haste

'Has a gentleone' 'Dear ive him some inforave me half-a-crown' 'That scale will do I'm a poor e will fetch But, by the way, perhaps you told hi to live here?' 'I didn't knohere she lived before co here O no--I only said what Mr Brown had toldman, or I shouldn't have been so open as I was' 'I shall now about catch him at Mr Halway's,' said the man, and went away as hastily as he had come