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Housekeeper at Blackwater Park.

Part 1 I am asked to state plainly what I know of the progress of Miss

Helcomes Illness and of the circumstances under which Lady Glide left Blackwater Park

for London. The reason given for making this demand on me is that my testimony is wanted

in the interests of truth. As the widow of a clergyman of the Church of England, reduced

by misfortune to the necessity of accepting a situation, I have been taught to place a

claims of truth above all other considerations. I therefore comply with the request which

I might otherwise, through reluctance to connect myself with distressing family affairs,

have has stated to grant. I made no memorandum at the time, and I cannot, therefore, be

sure to a day of the date, but I believe I am correct in stating that Miss Helcomes serious

illness began during the last fortnight or ten days in June. The breakfast hour was late

at Blackwater Park, sometimes as late as ten, never earlier than half past nine.

On the morning to which I am now referring, Miss Helcomes, who was usually the first to

come down, did not make her appearance at the table. After the family had waited a quarter

of an hour, the upper housemate was sent to see after her and came running out of the

room dreadfully frightened. I met the servant on the stairs, and when it once to Miss

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