. Except he was the only idiot who would stay. And I have no more the pistol. ’ ‘Oh, do they?’ Gerald said, sudden wrath kindling. The necessity which had previously existed of leaving the ghastly evidence of the murderous deed undisturbed,—the presence of the mangled corpse,—the bustle of the inquest, at which her attendance was required,—all these circumstances produced a harrowing effect upon the young girl's imagination. He was a civil servant of some standing, and after a previous conversation upon aesthetics of a sententious, nebulous, and sympathetic character, he had sent her a small volume, which he described as the fruits of his leisure and which was as a matter of fact rather carefully finished verse. “I look older. Anyhow, that is how things are. I seed he was one,—and a sharp un, too,—at a glance. I fought ten lions at once. One reason, perhaps, of his success in this case might be, that having arrested his associate in the dark transaction, Sir Rowland Trenchard, on a charge of high treason, he was favoured by Walpole, who found his account in retaining such an agent. “You are one of the Hampshire Pellissiers, I know, and your family are quite as good as ours. ’ With an unexpected flush of pleasure, he recalled the girl’s antics. "I took you for one who wouldn't hesitate to avail himself of any advantage chance might throw in his way," returned the thief-taker, coldly.
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