“They had rooms together?”
“No, not exactly. That question brings up things more clearly in my mind. The woman who passed as his wife was seen with him quite frequently, although she did not live with him regularly, and I am under the impression she was employed somewhere in a store.”
“You are not positive about that?”
“No. Yet I think it is so, for I made some investigation at the time, thinking it possible that this woman was in the store for the purpose of ‘laying the pipes’ for a job, and I wanted to be posted and ready for a pounce on them in case there was a burglary.”
“I suppose you saw this girl?”
“I did.”
“Do you recall what she looked like?”
“Yes.”
“How old was she?”
“She was very young, not a day over sixteen, and very much of a lady in appearance.”