"I would like to engage rooms, if there are any to rent," said Mr. Warner.
"I will speak to the landlady," said Morton, going to the door of her room.
"Tell the gentleman to call again," said Mrs. Sanford; "I am not dressed, and can't see him."
"I only wish to see her a few minutes," Mr. Warner replied, addressing Morton in a tone loud enough to be heard by Mrs. Sanford, whose door was slightly ajar.
"Well, I can't see the gentleman until this afternoon," she replied.
"I have some important business, and I must attend to it now," answered Mr. Warner, putting his foot in the opening and pushing the door in with his shoulder; then he continued, addressing the constable, "This is Mrs. Sanford, and you can arrest her now."
The constable immediately took charge of her, and she was allowed to complete her toilet, though Mr. Warner first searched her dress, before letting her put it on. He then made a careful search of the bedroom, during the progress of which Mrs. Sanford was very noisy and troublesome, crying, and pretending to go into hysterics several times. Once, when Mr. Warner was looking very carefully through her trunk, she said to him, in very tragic tones:
"By the way you act, one would think you were looking for a murdered man."
"Well, perhaps if we had come a little sooner, we might have found one," he replied, quickly, giving her a sharp glance.
As nothing had been said to her or to any one else about any charge except that of larceny, this remark was highly significant; and, on her trial, it undoubtedly had great weight with the jury.