'Now, Mrs Henderson, perhaps you'll tell us what all this means.
I doubt if it was flattering to Mrs Henderson. 'Have you got any brandy in the house?'
Mrs Henderson led the way up a staircase which would have been distinctly the better for repairs.
'Mrs Henderson keeps a sort of lodging-house,--a "Sailors' Home" she calls it, but no one could call it sweet.
We went four in the hansom which had been waiting in the street to Mrs Henderson's in Paradise Place,--the Inspector and we three.
I am qualified to put forth such an article because of two weeks' service in my own back yard, doing my bit for Peter Henderson and planting all sorts of things in the ground without the slightest expectation of ever seeing anything of any of them again.