[CHAPTER IV.]

THE EXAMINATION OF MRS. PREEDY, CONTINUED FROM THE “EVENING MOON.”

Mr. White Lush: You are quite confident in your own mind that the letter is no longer in existence.

Witness: I can’t swear to that, sir.

Mr. White Lush: You swear that you know nothing of it whatever?

Witness: Yes, sir.

Mr. White Lush: Now, what were the contents of the letter?

Witness: It were to inform me that the droring-rooms had bolted——

Magistrate: Bolted?