And see how the sunset
Is gilding the skies.'
"Have you found him in the garden? I shall be almost out of my wits, now, till my husband comes home. Who is it that you are looking for, and pray what has he done? He would need to be clever, indeed, to come in here without my knowing it; and as for the garden, why, I was hanging out the clothes there for the last half hour, I tell you."
"Oh, he's not here," said the officer. "It would be no bad thing, marm, for any one who could lend a helping hand to find him."
"Ah, indeed?"
"Yes. You have heard of Todd, the murderer? Well, that's the man we are after, and we have every reason to think that he is somewhere about here, and it is a large reward that is offered for him, I can tell you."
"Ah! I should like to get it."
"Not a doubt of it. Good-day, marm. If you should see any suspicious-looking fellow about the fields, just give notice of it in some sort of a way, if you can, for you may depend upon it, it will be Todd."
"Oh, yes, I will. How very fractious this little thing is to-day, to be sure. I hardly ever knew it to be so before."
"Ah, well, they will be so, at times. But I'm off. Mind, now, you get the reward if you see anything of Todd."