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But there is news to-night that one of the Widrington gang has turned informer, and the police say they will have their hands on them all within the next two or three days." Marcella withdrew herself from him and fell back into the corner of the sofa. Shading her eyes with her hand she tried to be very composed and business-like. "Was Hurd himself examined?" "Yes, under the new Act.
"And a mighty difficult one," said Hurd, rather depressed. "I really don't see my way. I have got together all the evidence I can, but I fear the verdict at the inquest will be wilful murder against some person or persons unknown." Hurd, who was not blind to his own limitations like some detectives, proved to be a true prophet.
It made the girl sick to think of. And Mary, out of a Puseyite dislike of second marriage, felt and expressed much the same repulsion. Well Minta Hurd was far away, and if she had been there to defend herself her powers of expression would have been no match for theirs. Nor does youth understand such pleas as she might have urged. "Will Lord Maxwell continue the pension?" said Mary.
So he had the mariner entirely to himself and got to business at once while the kettle boiled. "You have known this place for years I believe," said Hurd, taking a chair opposite to that of Jessop. "Did you ever drop across a man, who used to live here, called Lemuel Krill?" The other man started. "Whatever makes you arsk that?" he inquired in a husky voice.
'He is indeed, wrote Warburton to Hurd, 'a great man, and the only visionary I ever knew that was. It was left for later reasoners, in England and on the Continent, to separate what may be rightly called visionary in his writings from what may be profoundly true, and to feel the due influence of his suggestive and spiritual reflections.
I am over on a visit to Prairie Hen and Mrs. Skidmore a widow woman called to see me today In the course of conversation she said her little boy Peter had run off and shed hurd hed joined the 200th Indiana Volunteer Infantry.
Boston is safe as a church." "Probably safer than St. Stephen's, out in Cambridge, that burned to the ground last week," returned his visitor, with a smile. "To be sure," said Mr. Hurd, hastily. "But there'll never be a big, sweeping fire in Boston." "Why not? There was one once." "Forty years ago. That's no criterion. Things are very different now.
"I repeat that Miss Norman's money has nothing to do with me. And I may mention that as soon as the case is in your hands, Mr. Hurd " "Which it is now," interpolated the detective. "I intend to marry Miss Norman and then we will travel for a time." "That's very wise of you. Give Hay a wide berth. Of course, if you meet him, you needn't tell him what I have told you.
He took care to delete every vestige of animation from his tone and manner, and so radical a change did this effect that his step-uncle blinked. A man as keen as John M. Hurd could not be blind to a mutation so great. He looked Mr. Wilkinson over with more care than he had ever employed before, for he recognized at once that this was no ordinary visit.
When her mother was safely in the cab, the plain-clothes policeman alighted, so that Hurd might take his place. Maud came quietly down the steps and seized the detective by the arm. "You have ruined my mother," she said in a cold, hard tone; "you have robbed me of my money and of the chance of marrying the man I love.
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