"It ought to!--if there is anybody." Nothing, however, was heard by the police or by ourselves for the next three or four days; and then--I think it was the fourth day after the inquest--I looked up from my desk in Mr.Lindsey's outer office one afternoon to see Maisie Dunlop coming in at the door, followed by an elderly woman, poorly but respectably dressed, a stranger.
"Hugh," said Maisie, coming up to my side, "your mother asked me to bring this woman up to see Mr.Lindsey.

She's just come in from the south, and she says she's yon James Gilverthwaite's sister.".