"I thought you were gone.

Didn't you tell me there was a hurry on you ?" "I'm just going," said Meldon; "but before I start I want to ask you how you managed the boiled egg.

I suppose the judge had a boiled egg for breakfast.

Did you put paraffin into it ?" "I did." "How?
I'm most anxious to know how it was done." "It's what the gentleman asked me himself," said Sabina, "and I told him the truth." "Then tell it to me." "I'm not sure will I.

The gentleman was terrible upset when he heard it, worse than you'd think; for he had the egg ate." "There can't have been much paraffin in it, then." "There was not; but there was some." "And how did you get it there ?" "It was with a hairpin I did it." "Do you mean to say that you took a hairpin out of your head, and--" "I did, of course.