But there's this secret between us, and we can never be the same until it is cleared."
"Kindly let me have the facts, Mr. Munro," said Holmes, with some impatience.
"I'll tell you what I know about Effie's history.
She was a widow when I met her first, though quite young-only twenty-five.
Her name then was Mrs. Hebron.
She went out to America when she was young, and lived in the town of Atlanta, where she married this Hebron, who was a lawyer with a good practice.
They had one child, but the yellow fever broke out badly in the place, and both husband and child died of it.
I have seen his death certificate.
This sickened her of America, and she came back to live with a maiden aunt at Pinner, in Middlesex.
I may mention that her husband had left her comfortably off, and that she had a capital of about four thousand five hundred pounds, which had been so well invested by him that it returned an average of seven per cent.