"Mr. Duff Salter, I suppose you know where you are. Your hostesses are very insinuating and artful—and what else, you can find out! One man has been murdered in that family; another has disappeared. They say in Kensington the house of Zane is haunted.
"A Warner."
Podge read the note, and her tears dropped upon it. He moved forward as if to speak to her, but correcting himself hastily, he wrote upon the tablets:
"Not even a suspicious person is affected the least by an anonymous letter. I only keep it that possibly I may detect the sender!"
CHAPTER IV.
A SUITOR.
Duff Salter and the ladies were sitting in the back parlor one evening following the events just related, when the door-bell rang, and Podge Byerly went to see who was there. She soon returned and closed the door of the front parlor, leaving a little crack, by accident, and lighted the gas there.
"Aggy," whispered Podge, coming in, "there's Mr. Calvin Van de Lear, our future minister. He's elegantly dressed, and has a nosegay in his hand."
"Can't you entertain him, dear?"