schmiedler

Updated: July 3, 2025

Schmiedler, the gardener's wife, began her story at once. "Haven't you heard yet?" she said breathlessly. "No, you can't have heard it yet or you wouldn't stand there so quietly, Mrs. Bernauer." "What's the matter?" asked the woman whom Muller took to be the housekeeper. "They killed a man last night out here! They found his body just now in the lane back of our garden.

Auguste Groner - The Case of the Lamp That Went Out