However here we are, and better late than never and no doubt this lawyer gentleman'll be glad to hear what I can tell him and you." "Very glad indeed!" responded Brereton.

"What is it ?" The old woman turned to a box which stood in a recess in the ingle-nook at her elbow and took from it a folded newspaper.
"Me and my daughter and her husband read this here account o' the case against Harborough as it was put before the magistrates," she said.

"We studied it.

Now you want to know where Harborough was on the night that old fellow was done away with.

That's it, master, what ?" "That is it," answered Brereton, pressing his arm against Avice, who sat close at his side.