The Yellow Flag: A Novel. Volume 1 (of 3)Yates, Edmund
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The Yellow Flag: A Novel. Volume 1 (of 3)
Yates, Edmund
Fiction
Could they give him the address from which she wrote?" Certainly.
Address-book sent for; 143 Great College-street, Camden Town. Go to
page sixty. Landlady at Great College-street perfectly recollected
Miss Moore. Quiet, delicate girl, regular in her habits; never out
later than ten at night; keeping no company, and giving no trouble.
Used to be brought home regular every night by a gentleman--always
the same gentleman, landlady thought, but couldn't swear, as she
had never made him out properly, though she had often tried. Seen
from the area, landlady remarked, people looked so different.
Gentleman always took leave of Miss Moore at the door, and was never
seen again in the neighbourhood until he brought her back the next
night. Landlady recollected Miss Moore's going away. When she gave
notice about leaving, explained to landlady that she was ill and was
ordered change of air; didn't seem to be any worse than she had been
all along, but, of course, it was not her (the landlady's) place to
make any objection. At the end of the week a cab was sent for, Miss
Moore's boxes were put into it, and she drove away. Did the landlady
hear the address given to the cabman? She did. 'Waterloo Station,
Richmond line.' That answer seemed to me to screw up the whole
proceedings; trying to find the clue to a person, who, months before,
had gone away from the Waterloo Station, seemed as likely as feeling
for a threepenny-piece in a corn-sack. I made one or two inquiries,
but heard nothing, and had given the whole thing up for as good as
lost, when--let me see, page two hundred and one.
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