Upon that he exerted himself sufficiently to notice the letter in my hand.

"Ah!" he said in a weary way, "you have heard from her ladyship.

Have I anything to do with it, Mr.Betteredge ?" "You shall judge for yourself, Sergeant." I thereupon read him the letter (with my best emphasis and discretion), in the following words: "MY GOOD GABRIEL,--I request that you will inform Sergeant Cuff, that I have performed the promise I made to him; with this result, so far as Rosanna Spearman is concerned.

Miss Verinder solemnly declares, that she has never spoken a word in private to Rosanna, since that unhappy woman first entered my house.

They never met, even accidentally, on the night when the Diamond was lost; and no communication of any sort whatever took place between them, from the Thursday morning when the alarm was first raised in the house, to this present Saturday afternoon, when Miss Verinder left us.