"He came to New Haven with her, didn't he?" asked Stricket.
"Yes," was the reply, "and they started in the saloon-business in this very place."
"There was a pretty serious row, wasn't there, in which Natolph got hurt?"
"Yes, one night, in this very room, Natolph was struck in the head with a bottle, nearly cracking his skull. Typhoid fever set in, and that and the injuries from the bottle soon after caused his death."
"How long is it since Ernst, her third husband, died?" asked Old Spicer.
"Less than ten years," was the reply.
"She left no children, I believe?"
"No—never had any, so far as I have been able to learn."
"She has kept up the business, married or single?"
"Yes: to the very hour of her death."