“It is of her we would speak, doctor. And I must be brief. She had one child, sir?”
“Alas! yes, a dear, sweet little girl, who disappeared mysteriously, and was found many weeks afterwards at the bottom of a well.”
“Did—did you make a post-mortem, doctor?”
“I did.”
“Was there any evidence of foul-play?”
“Nothing that we could hinge a case upon. The poor little tot had wandered away and fallen into this terrible place. So we believe, at least.”
“Was there any birth-mark?”
“There was, or rather, had been before death, a curiously-shaped mark on the right arm above the elbow.”
“Did you find this mark on the little body which had fallen into or been thrown into a pit?”
“The body, sir, had lain too long to distinguish this. The identification was simple. The clothes and even trinkets were those the child had worn on the very morning of her disappearance.”