21/29 What do you wish to know ?" "Who killed Sidney Bolton: who has the emeralds." "I can't tell you. Listen! With my past life you have nothing to do. I had just lost my husband, and I managed to scrape together a few hundred pounds--oh, quite in a respectable way, I assure you," she added scoffingly, on seeing her listener wince. "I came here to try and live quietly, and, if possible, to secure a rich husband. I knew that the Fort was here and thought that I might marry an officer. |