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"Mrs. Yates," said Detective-Sergeant Colson, as he finished a modest meal, served at his request in the "Mariner's Arms," "I am thinking of making my quarters here, at all events till the inquest is over. Can I have a room?"
"I'm only too glad to have you, sir," replied the buxom landlady. "I'm not much given to be afraid, but I don't like the idea of being alone in the house with a corpse, and I was thinking of asking a neighbour to sleep here."