If my uncle was
paying a rather high price, at least he could console himself with the
reflection that he was paying specialists' fees."
"Meanwhile had the police given up all attempts to track the missing
lady?" asked the Journalist.
"Not entirely; they came to my uncle from time to time to report on clues
which they thought might yield some elucidation as to her fate or
whereabouts, but I think they had their suspicions that he was possessed
of more information than he had put at their disposal. And then, after a
disappearance of more than eight years, Crispina returned with dramatic
suddenness to the home she had left so mysteriously."
"She had given her captors the slip?"
"She had never been captured. Her wandering away had been caused by a
sudden and complete loss of memory. She usually dressed rather in the
style of a superior kind of charwoman, and it was not so very surprising
that she should have imagined that she was one; and still less that
people should accept her statement and help her to get work. She had
wandered as far afield as Birmingham, and found fairly steady employment
there, her energy and enthusiasm in putting people's rooms in order
counterbalancing her obstinate and domineering characteristics.
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