CHAPTER XXI

SARTORIAL REVELATIONS (_Wednesday, June 19; 5.30 p.m._) The housekeeper regarded our visit that afternoon with marked uneasiness. Though she was a large powerful woman, her body seemed to have lost some of its strength, and her face showed signs of prolonged anxiety. Snitkin informed us, when we entered, that she had carefully read every newspaper account of the progress of the case, and had questioned him interminably on the subject. She entered the living-room with scarcely an acknowledgment of…