Also I climbed over the fence into the yard of No.13.Here I could not see where the figure had disappeared to, as the doors and windows at the back of the house were all locked.

I could not conjecture who the woman was--for it was a woman I saw--who had entered, or why she had done so, or in what way she had gained admission.
"While I was thus thinking I saw the woman again.

She apparently rose out of the earth, and after closing what appeared to be a trap-door, she made for the fence.

I stopped her before she got there, and found to my surprise that she was a red-headed servant of Mrs.Bensusan's--a kind of gypsy, very clever, and--I think--with much evil in her.

She was alarmed at being discovered, and begged me not to tell on her.