"'You saw him, then?' said our reporter, observing that Mrs. Middlemore's apology and, the promise of sixpence a week had mollified the girl.
"'Yes, I sor 'im before I got to the 'ouse, but I didn't know he come out of it. He was jest what aunty sed he was, and what's more, he 'ad large flat feet.'
"'If you saw him again you could swear to him?'
"'I'd pick 'im out of a thousan.' He run agin me, he did, and I sed, "Who are yer pushing of?" He didn't say nothink, but walked off forty to the dozen.'
"'Looking as if he did not wish to attract notice?'
"'Yes, he did look like that.'
"'Was he carrying anything?'
"'Not that I sor. He 'ad 'is coat buttoned up.'
"'When he come to me,' said Mrs. Middlemore, 'it was unbuttoned.'
"'Proving that he took something away with him. Anything else Sophy?'