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 "Still, I daresay in my pocket—"

"You told me two days ago that you had n't anything but a sovereign's worth of silver upon you—"

"Well, I 've found some more—"

"Ul-lo!" from the bar.

"I wonder where you found it?" said Mrs. Hall.

That seemed to annoy the stranger very much. He stamped his foot. "What do you mean?" he said.

"That I wonder where you found it," said Mrs. Hall. "And before I take any bills or get any breakfasts, or do any such things whatsoever, you got to tell me one or two things I don't understand, and what nobody don't understand, and what everybody is very anxious to understand. I want know what you been doing t' my chair upstairs, and I want know how 'tis your room was empty, and how you got in again. Them as stops in this house comes in by the doors,—that 's the rule of the house, and that you did n't do, and what I want know is how you did come in. And I want know—"