"Yes, it was."
"Did you get his street address?"
"Yes, sir—1496 West One Hundred and Twenty-fourth Street."
I jotted it down, as Colt proceeded:
"Next, about the servants in the Swift apartment?"
"They have a maid," reported Norris, taking up the tale. "She comes in by the day. She's off this afternoon because it's Sunday. She is a coloured girl and her name is Millie Newson. She lives in West Sixty-second Street, over in the San Juan Hill district. She's been with the Swifts for two months. They've had a string of girls over the last seven months. But before that they had one girl who had been with them for six or seven years."
"What was her name?"
"Nellie Schwartz."
"Was she fired?"
"Yes, sir."
"Why?"
"For interfering in an awful row between old Nick Swift, as the janitor call
