16/217 Well, Susan, have you heard anything who the strange gentleman is? Haven't you heard? I overheard her talking in confidence to Mrs.Setter and Mrs.Pointer, and she says they were holding a sort of a _cummitty_ about it. There can't be a doubt of it, she says, what from his _figger_ and the appearance he cuts, and his _sumpshous_ way of living, and above all from the remarkable circumstance that his surname should begin with an H., that he must be-- _Both_. |