"Solvitur ambulando," muttered the man, smiling at the simple solution of an occurrence which had puzzled him greatly at the time.
"What's that, sir?" demanded Betty.
"Sorry. I was thinking aloud—a bad habit. Those two Latin words mean that your walk to the shed disposes of a difficulty. Now for the next item, Betty. Miss Meg, as you call her, is the young lady who lived here a good many years?"
"She was born here, sir. She and I are nearly of an age—twenty-two, each of us."
"And her father was Mr. Stephen Garth?"
"Yes, sir."
"But isn't he dead?"
"Oh, yes, sir! Dead and buried two years this very month."
"Are you sure?"
"Yes, sir. Mother was the first who saw his dead body. She was nearly frightened into a fit."