"You appear, however, to have been disagreeably impressed by it."
"It seemed to be of an unnatural colour and to have a strange rigidity about the features. When I approached, it vanished with a jerk."
"How long is it since your wife asked you for a hundred pounds?"
"Nearly two months."
"Have you ever seen a photograph of her first husband?"
"No, there was a great fire at Atlanta very shortly after his death, and all her papers were destroyed."
"And yet she had a certificate of death. You say that you saw it?"
"Yes, she got a duplicate after the fire."
"Did you ever meet anyone who knew her in America?"
"No."