In spite of what Clyne says in his confession, I believe she took a delight in turning No.

13 into a haunted house with her shrieking and her flitting candles.

How she must have enjoyed herself when she heard the talk about the ghost!" "I have no doubt she did, Mr.Denzil, but even those delights wearied her, and she longed to get back to the free gypsy life.

When she found--through you, sir--that the police wanted to know too much about Clear's death, she left Mrs.Bensusan in the lurch, and tramped off down to the New Forest, where she picked up again with her tribe." "How did her mistress take her desertion ?" "Very much to heart, as she had treated the young savage very kindly, and ought to have received more gratitude.

Perhaps when she hears how her adopted child wandered about at night, and ended by killing Clear, she will be glad she is dead and buried.