om." I am short-sighted, and my wife
would have it I had made a mistake; but I felt quite certain I had not.
Later on, whilst Jane was laying the lunch, I said to her: "I thought
that you and Mary were the only two servants in the house."

"Yes, sir, only me and Mary," was Jane's reply, as she left the room.

"There," said my wife, "I told you that you were mistaken." And I did
not pursue the subject further.

Two or three days slipped away in pleasant occupations, such as driving,
boating, etc., and we had forgotten all about the third maid. We saw but
little of Miss G., though her handiwork was pleasantly apparent in the
cuisine.

On the sixth morning of our stay, which was the day before we were to
leave, my wife after breakfast said she would go up and do a little
packing whilst I made out our route for the following day in the
Bradshaw; but was soon interrupted by the return of my wife with a
rather scared look on her face.

"Well," she said, "you were right after all, for there is another maid,
and she is now in our bed-room, and apparently engaged in much the same
occupation as when you saw her there. She took no notice of me, but
stood there with her body slightly bent over the bed, looking straight
in front of her, her hands smoothing the bed-clothes." She described her
as having dark hair, her face very pale, and her mouth very firmly set.
My curiosity was now so much awakened that I determined to question Miss
G. on the subject. But our carriage was now at the door waiting for us
to start on an expedition that would engage us all day.

On my return, late in the afternoon, meeting Miss G. in the passage, I
said to her: "Who is the third servant that Mrs. K. and myself have seen
once or twice in our bed-room?"

Miss G. looked, I thought, rather scared, and, murmuring something that
I could not catch, turned and went hurriedly down the stairs into the
kitchen.

An hour afterwards, as we were sitting waiting for our dinner, Jane
brought a note from Miss G. enclosing her account, and saying that she
had just had a telegram summoning her to the sick-bed of a relation,
that in all probability she would not be back till after our departure,
but that she had left directions with the servants, and hoped they would
make us quite comfortable, and that we would excuse her hurried
departure.

A few minutes after, a cab drove up to the door, into which, from our
window, we saw Miss G. get, and drive rapidly away.