running down stairs, i quickly stated my suspicions to the first person i met—the chamber-maid. "la! la!" she cried, "i thought something must be the matter. i went to make the bed after breakfast, and the door was locked; and not a mouse to be heard; and it’s been just so silent ever since. but i thought, may be, you had both gone off and locked your baggage in for safe keeping. la! la, ma’am!—mistress! murder! mrs.