1. . Entering the house, he found himself in a narrow passage leading to the back stairs. Near by stood Ah Cum and the young unknown, the former protesting gently, the latter insistent upon his demands. " "Why, what'll you do?" demanded the turnkey. "But they will find the evidences of slaughter in the other room,—the table upset,—the bloody cloth,— the dead man's sword,—the money,—and my memorandum, which I forgot to remove. ‘Where is Gérard?’ ‘Out of town,’ Hilary said briefly. Those whom he retained about his person, or placed in offices of trust, were for the most part convicted felons, who, having returned from transportation before their term had expired, constituted, in his opinion, the safest agents, inasmuch as they could neither be legal evidences against him, nor withhold any portion of the spoil of which he chose to deprive them.
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