Then he put some questions about us—how long she'd known us, when she'd left us, and so on.
Mary gave him the date of the day she was hurt, and, quite natural-like, spoke of me stopping the train with holding up mother's red shawl as a danger-signal.
"Yes, to be sure," says the policeman. "She had a reward for that too" —meaning me.
"The best reward was knowing of all the lives she'd saved," said Mary. "But the Earl of Leigh gave her a gold watch and chain too."
"And you've seen 'em, no doubt," says the policeman.
"Many times, while I was in the house," Mary answered.
"And know where they were kept," says the policeman.
"Yes; quite well," says Mary.
Then of a sudden it darted into her mind what all this meant.
"Has Kitty lost the watch?" says she.