i:ss Lemon, looking intensely
and friendless in this country,
for not wisBing to return tO
fioyed as a kind of drudge,
d companior to an old lady,
mcomplaining."
ss Lemon olediently, but en/
herself beint meek to any of
,,kes a fancy to you. She decide
kY to you. she tells you so.'
l "Yes" a lr.
old
out something'
that
of money
HOW DOES YOUR GARDEN GROW?
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you have not been honest with her. Or it might be
more grave still--a medicine that tasted different,
some food that disagreed. Anyway, she begins to
suspect you of something and she writes to a very
famous detective--enfin, to the most famous.
detective--me! I am to call upon her shortly. And
then, as you say, the dripping will be in the fire.
The great thing is to act quickly. And so--before
the great detective arrives--the old lady is dead.
And the money comes to you Tell
me, does
that
seemto you reasonable?"