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Updated: September 18, 2025
When I thought the conversation had lasted long enough I took Julia away from the library. Mrs Ragg had declared herself unable to have our meal ready before three o'clock in the afternoon. We went into a pastry-cook's therefore, and Julia ate a fair supply of tarts and custards, and insisted on taking away with her a selection from the store.
"You are not Mrs Ragg," our companion said. She grabbed more convulsively at her dress, and made no reply. "Where is Mrs Ragg?" "She is dead, sir. Dead," the woman said, and sat down and began to cry. "She died the very afternoon the ladies came. I had the doctor to her. You can ask the doctor if you don't believe me. I'd have kept her alive if I could. She was my dear sister.
At sight of us, unexpectedly appearing before her, of our protector with his air of authority, of the policeman, who, contrary to instructions, introduced himself at the open door, Mrs Ragg rose with a wavering cry that was like a whine, from her seat. She sucked in her cheeks till they met, and with her claw-like hands grabbed her shabby frock where it loosely covered her bosom.
I ought to have heard every movement, even if she turned in her bed." "It was very thoughtful of Mrs Ragg to lie so still." "She was not there, Isabella." "Not there?" "I'd stake my life on it. It worried me so at last I had to listen, you know that I got up and put my ear against the partition. The deadest stillness!" "But even if she was not there, I don't see it is so very alarming."
All her senses were merged in the sense of seeing. She could not hear, nor feel, nor speak. Mrs Ragg, holding the lantern high, walked ahead of the obscure group, which slowly followed. The light illumined her stooping, meagre figure as she made her way down the path across the back garden to the gate.
"Oh, my God! they'll have 'im out! It was he caused the death of the boy yo mind 'im young Jimmy Ragg a month sen; though the crowner's jury did let 'im off, more shame to them! An' now they say as how he signalled for 'em to bring up the men from the Albert pit afore he'd made sure as the cage in the Victory pit was clear!" "Explain to me, please," said Mary, touching the woman's arm.
"While she is doing so, and you, Isabella, keep her attention engaged on things below, I am going upstairs to have a look at her bedroom." "Absurd!" I ejaculated. "Aren't you absurd?" Julia cried, and turned upon me with scorn. "To take up your abode in a little cut-throat hole like this and not to take the commonest precaution!" She flew upstairs, then, and Mrs Ragg was in the room.
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