‘So it was. "I suppose I must have been senseless for some time; for, on coming to myself, I found this gash in my head, and the ground covered with blood. If you knew your aunt were alive, if she expected you, that would be different. This was the body of a man, apparently lifeless, and stretched upon a mattress, with his head bound up in a linen cloth, through which the blood had oosed. He was standing by, rating her ladyship,—who can scarcely stir from the sofa,—while I was packing up her jewels in the case, and I observed that she tried to hide a small casket from him. He was daring enough to have seized and carried him off before the whole congregation, but he preferred waiting. His technique had gained much subtlety over the years. —'Why, hang every bailiff that sets a foot in your territories, and you're safe,' says I. He was tried at the last Old Bailey sessions; and only escaped the gallows by impeaching his accomplices.
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