"Yes."
"Did you speak to her?"
"Chamberlain spoke to her."
"What did he say?"
"I don't know. He led her a little one side and they had considerable jaw together, then she hurried away—crying, I thought."
"Humph; and what happened then?"
"Why, as soon as Sadie had left the basement, the old woman locked the front door, and then came round and fastened the back door with an iron bar."
"About what time was that?"
"It wanted just a quarter to ten."
"What did you do then?"