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As for Mrs. Herbert , nobody seemed to know who or what she was , and , between ourselves , I fancy the divers after her history found themselves in rather strange waters . Of course they both denied knowing anything about the deceased , and in default of any evidence against them they were discharged . But some very odd things came out about them . Though it was between five and six in the morning when the dead man was removed , a large crowd had collected , and several of the neighbours ran to see what was going on . They were pretty free with their comments , by all accounts , and from these it appeared that Number 20 was in very bad odour in Paul Street . The detectives tried to trace down these rumours to some solid foundation of fact , but could not get hold of anything . People shook their heads and raised their eyebrows and thought the Herberts rather `` queer , '' `` would rather not be seen going into their house , '' and so on , but there was nothing tangible .