'What were they?' said the doctor quickly.
'She told me (my young lady will pardon me), she had more power to injure than her enemies had power to injure her; and nothing but her love for my young lady would have kept her quiet. "If they desert you," she said, "I will come back before they expect, and do right to the wronged."'
'Anything else?'
'Much of the same sort.'
'And how did you get the account of her death?'
'It was reported in the neighbourhood, some time before a letter came from Dusseldorf, written by the person in whose house she died, and containing certificates of her death from the doctor and a Lutheran minister.'
'Did you credit these reports?'
'I did.'
'But have you had anything since to shake your confidence in them?'
'Last summer,' said Shady, 'my young lady will remember the visit of a German pedlar?'