Chapter XI.—NemesisThe following morning, just as the highly disgusted Miss Jane Carrington was being driven into Colchester, with tears of baffled spite in her eyes and a crossed cheque for three months' salary in her bag, Mrs. Jackson arrived at the back door of the Priory to have speech with her brother, Samuel Chime.
Tears were streaming down her face and her voice was choking as she proceeded to tell him that the village constable had just been round to her to say that a body answering in all respects to the description of their niece, was now lying in the Southend mortuary and someone was to proceed there at once to identify it.
The body had been washed up on the shore between Southend and Shoeburyness and to all appearances it had been in the sea about a week.
The butler trembled
