I've got all my worldly goods in it, but it isn't heavy. However, if you will take a seat and tell me what you want to know, I'll do my best. Perhaps a glass of beer might be helpful." The sergeant agreed that it might; and when he had been settled in an easy chair by the fire with a jug of beer and a couple Christian Louboutin Pigalle Flat Black Brown of glasses on a small table by his side, and had--by invitation--filled and lighted his pipe, the inquisition began. But we know what Tom's information amounted to. Of the material facts of the case he knew nothing. The dead woman was a stranger to him, and even Lotta Schiller was little more; indeed, as he strove vainly to answer the sergeant's questions, he was surprised to find how completely ignorant he was of her antecedents, her position in the world, her friends and relations, of everything, in fact, concerning her except the little that he had gathered from direct observation. "Seems rather a mysterious sort of lady," the sergeant remarked as Tom refilled his glass.
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