The Sign of the Spider

CHAPTER I.

"SWEET HOME!"

She was talking _at_ him.

This was a thing she frequently did, and she had two ways of doing it. One was to talk at him through a third party when they two were not alone together; the other to convey moralizings and innuendo for his edification when they were--as in the present case.

Just now she was extolling the superabundant v...