“The men at the stable, sir.”
“How many trunks were there?”
“Eleven.”
“Do you know to what place those trunks were checked?”
“Yes, sir. I asked. They were checked to New York.”
“Which tells us nothing, and which can never tell us anything, I expect since an entire week has elapsed since that time. Sarah, did the other servants in the house know that she was intending to go away that day?”
“Nobody knew it until she began sending for her trunks.”
“Now, let us return to the moment when she sent you on that errand to New York.”
“Very well, sir.”
“How did she appear when she gave you your orders about that?”