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I am frightened of him.

I told her I had not any money to go to

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West Point, but asked her to come round to my compradore's at Ar-

senal Street to telephone to her husband, and I would borrow 50

cents off the compradore. We went round together, and while Mra.

Xavior was telephoning I borrowed 50 cents from the compradore,

which I gave back to him as Mrs. Xavier said her husband "ould be

back at 5 o'clock and asked me to wait for him. On the way back

to the house (it was then about 4 o'clock) she said, "My husband

He is very asked me where I was telephoning from, and I told him. jealous of me, and will not allow me to go out of the house with- out him." When we returned her sister had left the house. then told me that when she told her husband the inspector kissed her he was very angry, and said he would beat the inspector when he came again to inspect the house; he would get a half Holiday and wait for him. He asked her when he was coming back, and she

said in three days time. When her brother came in to dinner the same evening he told him what he intended doing, and they arranged to hide until the inspector got into the place and beat him, was very sorry I told him about the inspector, and asked him not to do that, but if the inspector came again to let the amah scold hår.

She also told me that her husba but they would not hear of this. had told her the inspector had been familiar with the woman he

I asked her if it kept for six years, and warned her against him. was my husband, and she said she did not know, but the amah would know him as he used to give her 30 cents every time he came and

I asked her how sho she had been in his employ all the time. knew it was my husband knocking on the door on the Friday, and she said her husband and brother made her lean over the verandah and watch for him, and when she saw him coming she told her husband

and brother.

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Her husband got into a wardrobe, and her brother go' under the bed. They made her open the door to the inspector, and