CHAPTER XIV

FANNY HAS A VISITOR NO. 280 CORAM STREET was an apartment house, and Mrs. Fanny Weldon occupied two rooms, one facing Coram Street and one a side turning. She lived well and she paid well, gave little or no trouble, and the breath of scandal did not touch her name. Not noticeably. She was in truth the star boarder, and her landlady would have gone very far to oblige Fanny, always providing that the fair name of 280 was not assailed. This woman crook had spent a busy night, yet sleep refused to come to her in the da…