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"Well, she didn't exactly send us," explained Mrs. Presk, reluctantly, "but she gave me two tickets and suggested that we should go. Knowing her habits, and always willing to oblige, I went, and took 'Tilda."
"What do you mean?" asked Gebb, staring at the landlady.
Mrs. Presk explained herself more clearly.
"On occasions Miss Ligram was ashamed of her superstitions, I think, sir, for three or four times she got me and 'Tilda out of the house while she consulted her swindlers. Once," said Mrs. Presk, consulting her book, "it was the Crystal Palace; again, two seats at the Adelphi; Earl's Court Exhibition three weeks ago, and the local lecture last night. But we came back always to find her in bed, until this last time," concluded Mr. Presk, with a shudder.
"A strange woman," commented Gebb, thoughtfully. "So you never found out where she came from?"
"No, sir, she was as close as wax. I called her the Lady from Nowhere."
"You know nothing of her past?"
"Nothing! She might have come from the moon for all I know of her."
"Nothing!" interrupted the landlady, emphatically. "I saw nothing."
"Then," said Gebb, rising briskly, "I must stick to the clue of the Yellow Room."
The journalist is the true Asmodeus of the day, and is quite as fond as that meddlesome demon of interfering with what does not concern him. He invades the privacy of our lives, unroofs our houses, reveals our secrets, and trumpets forth things best left untold to the four quarters of the globe.
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