"What do you want to know?"
"Are any of the servants of this house missing?"
"No." "Dear me! have any been lately dismissed?"
"No; do you allude to any particular servant?"
"Yes; Lydia Fenny."
The woman started again.
"What about her?"
"She is dead. If you had read the papers you would have noticed the Jermyn Street tragedy. She is the victim."
"There is some mistake," said the woman, quietly.
"I don't think so," replied Dowker, coolly taking out the hat from the newspaper. "Do you know this?"