CHAPTER 5There was a pause, yet it hardly appeared to be one, so charged was it with Miss Silver’s intelligent interest. When she observed, “A truly strange coincidence,” Frank Abbott laughed and said,
“Do you believe in coincidences to that extent? I’m afraid I don’t.”
Miss Silver continued to knit.
“I have known some strange ones.”
He laughed again.
“As strange as this?”
She made no direct answer, but said,
“Who is this missing woman? The landlady must have known a little more about her than that she wore a black coat and rather curious earrings.”
“Well, she doesn’t seem to know very much. I went down to see her, and this is what it amounts to. The missing woman hadn’t been with her very long—not more than a month. Name Mrs. Rogers. Christian name Louise. Slight foreign accent. S
