Gossip moves pretty widely about the countryside." "Oh, this didn't happen in the country, sir--not in this part of the country, anyhow.

It must have been a London woman," said Hutchings with conviction.

"If she'd lived about here, I must have heard about it." "It was a lady, you must know.

The papers do not bring that fact out.

My informant is quite sure that it was a lady," said Mr.Flexen.
"That's no 'elp, sir," said Hutchings despondently.