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第790章 MR. POLICEMAN AND THE COOK.(7)
"It's always kept locked. Come downstairs and see for yourself."Priscilla went with us. Her mistress set her to work to light the kitchen fire. "Some of us," says Mrs. Crosscapel, "may be the better for a cup of tea." I remarked that she took things easy, under the circumstances. She answered that the landlady of a London lodging-house could not afford to lose her wits, no matter what might happen.