Tab satisfied her on that point.
“Do you know the Greens?” he asked, remembering just as he was on the point of leaving the house, the witnesses to the old man’s will.
“No, sir, not really,” she said. “Mrs. Green was cook before me and I saw her once, the day I came, and Mr. Green too. They were a very nice couple and I don’t think the master treated them very well.”
“Where are they now?”
“I don’t know, sir,” she said. “I did hear that they had gone to Australia. They were middle-aged people, but very strong and healthy and Mr. Green was always talking about going to Australia where he was born and settling down there.”
“Did Green or his wife have any hard feelings against Mr. Trasmere?”
She hesitated.
“Well, they naturally felt sore because they had been accused of thieving, and Mr. Green seemed to feel the disgrace terribly, especially when the master had their boxes searched because he had lost some valuable silver and a gold watch.”
This was news to Tab. He had heard of the food pilfering, but he had not heard of the other losses.
She could tell him very little more, except that Green had acted as a sort of butler.