11/21 Mr.Sam Bossom, 'e gave us a 'and at the coal-'ole, an' Mr.Mortimer got mixed up in it later on; an' that's all _they_ know about it. There's nobody elst, unless you count the pore woman at the orspital, an' _she's_ dead." "That aunt of yours--is _she_ dead too ?" Tilda grinned. You see," she began, "I been laid up three weeks in 'orspital--the Good Samaritan, if you know it--along o' bein' kicked by a pony. End o' last week they brought in a woman--dyin' she was, an' in a dreadful state, an' talkin'. I ought to know, 'cos they put her next bed to mine; s'pose they thought she'd be company. |