? ? ? ? "You appear, however, to have been disagreeably impressed by it."
? ? ? ? "It seemed to be of an unusual colour and to have a strange rigidity about the features. When I approached it vanished with a jerk."
? ? ? ? "How long is it since your wife asked you for a hundred pounds?"
? ? ? ? "Nearly two months."
? ? ? ? "Have you ever seen a photograph of her first husband?"
? ? ? ? "No, there was a great fire at Atlanta very shortly after his death, and all her papers were destroyed."
? ? ? ? "And yet she had a certificate of death. You say that you saw it."
? ? ? ? "Yes, she got a duplicate after the fire."
? ? ? ? "Did you ever meet anyone who knew her in America?"
? ? ? ? "No."
? ? ? ? "Did she ever talk of revisiting the place?"
? ? ? ? "No."
? ? ? ? "Or get letters from it?"
? ? ? ? "No."
? ? ? ? "Thank you. I should like to think over the matter a little now. If the cottage is now permanently deserted we may have some difficulty. If, on the other hand, as I fancy is more likely the inmates were warned of your coming and left before you entered yesterday, then they may be back now, and we should clear it all up easily.
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