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Drabdump liked to see the fine folks keep their place, and not contaminate their skirts by contact with the lower castes. "It's set wet, it'll rain right into the new year," she announced. "And they say a bad beginnin' makes a worse endin'." Mrs. Drabdump was one of those persons who give you the idea that they just missed being born barometers.
Drabdump, let us know what happened when you awoke at half-past six the next morning." Thereupon Mrs. How she became alarmed how she found the street door locked by the big lock how she roused Grodman, and got him to burst open the door how they found the body all this with which the public was already familiar ad nauseam was extorted from her afresh. Do you recognise it?"
She did not grudge him his gains, nor was it her business if, as they alleged, in introducing Mr. Constant to her vacant rooms, his idea was not merely to benefit his landlady. He had done her an uncommon good turn, queer as was the lodger thus introduced. His own apostleship to the sons of toil gave Mrs. Drabdump no twinges of perplexity.
The simple headstone bore the name, "Arthur Constant." Wimp tapped her suddenly on the shoulder. "How do you do, Mrs. Drabdump?" Mrs. Drabdump went deadly white. She turned round, staring at Wimp without any recognition. "You remember me, surely," he said; "I've been down once or twice to your place about that poor gentleman's papers." His eye indicated the grave. "Lor!
The first persons to enter the room would have seemed to me guilty. By associating myself thus with Mrs. Drabdump I made it difficult for people to dissociate the two who entered the room together. To dash a half-truth in the world's eyes is the surest way of blinding it altogether. I was disgusted with the open verdict, and wanted men to be up and doing and trying to find me out.
Drabdump knocked viciously at the door of the one he used for a bedroom, crying, "Seven o'clock, sir. You'll be late, sir. You must get up at once." The usual slumbrous "All right" was not forthcoming; but, as she herself had varied her morning salute, her ear was less expectant of the echo.
I pocketed the razor and the empty sulfonal phial. With a woman like Mrs. Drabdump to watch me, I could do anything I pleased. I got her to draw my attention to the fact that both the windows were fastened.
SPIGOT, Q.C.: "That will do, thank you, Mrs. Drabdump." BROWN-HARLAND, Q.C.: "No; one question more, Mrs. Drabdump. Did you ever see anything say, when Miss Dymond came to your house to make you suspect anything between Mr. Constant and the prisoner's sweetheart?" "She did meet him once when Mr. Mortlake was out." "Where did she meet him?" "In the passage.
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