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Against Miss Pett there appears to have been no suspicion in Woking at that time and for the matter of that," concluded Mr. Stobb drily, "I don't know that there is now." "You have some yourself?" suggested Brereton. "I went into things further," answered Mr. Stobb, with the ghost of a wink. "I found out how things were left by Stilman.
She had been storekeeper at one, and linen-keeper at another before she went to Major Stilman. There was nothing against her at either of those places. But of course I wanted to know more about her than that. Now she said in answer to you that before she went to the first of those hotels she had lived at home with her father, a Sussex farmer. So she had but it was a long time before.
"Well, now, I want to ask you a question or two about yourself. What had you been before you became housekeeper to Mr. Kitely?" "Housekeeper to another gentleman!" replied Miss Pett, acidly. "Who was he?" "Well, if you want to know, he was a Major Stilman, a retired officer though what that has " "Where did Major Stilman live?" asked Brereton.
I was with Major Stilman a many years, and before that I was store-keeper at one London hotel, and linen-keeper at another, and before that I lived at home with my father, who was a respectable farmer in Sussex. And what all this has to do with what we're here for, I should like " "Just give me the names of the two hotels you were at in London, will you?" asked Brereton.
He got drugs to alleviate the pain of that neuralgia from every chemist in the place, one time or another. And one day, Major Stilman was found dead in bed, with some of these drugs by his bedside. Of course an inquest was held, and, equally of course, the evidence of doctors and chemists being what it was, a verdict of death from misadventure overdose of the stuff, you know was returned.
But naturally she didn't tell you more than the mere facts, the surface, as it were. Now, I got at everything. Miss Pett was housekeeper at Woking to a Major Stilman, a retired officer of an infantry regiment. All the time she was with him some considerable period he was more or less of an invalid, and he was well known to suffer terribly from some form of neuralgia.
"He lived at Kandahar Cottage, Woking," replied Miss Pett, who was now showing signs of rising anger. "But " "Answer my questions, if you please, and don't make remarks," said Brereton. "Is Major Stilman alive?" "No, he isn't he's dead this ten years," answered Miss Pett. "And if you're going to ask me any more questions about who and what I am, young man, I'll save you the trouble.
Stilman had nothing but his pension, and a capital sum of about two thousand pounds. He left that two thousand, and the furniture of his house, to Miss Pett. The will had been executed about a twelvemonth before Stilman died. It was proved as quickly as could be after his death, and of course Miss Pett got her legacy. She sold the furniture and left the neighbourhood."
And, as I say, we employed Stobb and Leykin, men of great experience, to just find out a little about Miss Pett. Of course, Miss Pett herself had given us something to go on. She had told you some particulars of her career. She had been housekeeper to a Major Stilman, at Kandahar Cottage, Woking. She had occupied posts at two London hotels.
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