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Now I shall give it out here in the house that you had a very good reason for leaving your case, and that while we can't explain it any more particularly, I have had a talk with you and know all about it, and am perfectly satisfied. Then I shall go out to Medford and see Dr. Pitts. It would be best," she added, for Lloyd had made a gesture of feeble dissent.
He squandered them faster than ever. And finally, when it became unbearable, I appealed to a friend. That friend has now succeeded in placing this man quietly in a sanitarium for the insane." "And the murder of the chef?" shot out Kennedy. She looked from one to the other of us in alarm. "Before God, I know no more of that than does Mr. Pitts." Was she telling the truth?
It seemed a little abrupt to me at first, but he intended it to be. "Why," she asked with real alarm, "is he so very badly?" "Pretty badly," remarked Kennedy mercilessly, observing the effect of his words. "So badly, I fear, that it would not require much more excitement like to-day's to bring on an attack of apoplexy. I should advise you to take especial care of him, Mrs. Pitts."
The morning's mail still lay on the table, some letters open, as they had been when the discovery had been announced. Mrs. Pitts was apparently much excited and unnerved by the gruesome discovery in the house, "You have no idea who the murderer might be?" asked Kennedy, addressing Pitts, but glancing keenly at his wife. "No," replied Pitts, "if I had I should have called the regular police.
No one having answered her bell in the present state of excitement of the house, she stopped short at the pivoted door of the kitchen, with a little shudder at the tragedy, and stood only long enough to relate to us the story as she had heard it from the valet, Edward. Mr. Pitts, it seemed, had wanted an early breakfast and had sent Edward to order it.
Abruptly the conference began. "Well, Mr. Bennett, you got our wire?" Campbell said by way of commencement. Bennett shook his head. "No," he returned in some surprise; "no, I got no wire." "That's strange," said Tremlidge. "I wired three days ago asking for this interview. The address was right, I think. I wired: 'Care of Dr. Pitts. Isn't that right?"
He sent Pitts to the galley to report on the effect of the shot there. "And a quarter seven!" reported Felix. This was the first mark on the chart outside of the shoal line from one to two miles from the shore. The captain now turned his attention to the condition of the Fatimé. Louis had gone into the pilot-house to receive any orders the commander had to give him.
I stayed there pointing my pistol at any one who showed his head until Pitts had gone perhaps 30 or 40 yards, and then, putting spurs to my horse, I galloped to where he was and took him up behind me. “What kept you so long?” I asked Pitts. Then he told me they had been drinking and had made a botch of it inside the bank.
Two-and-twenty were executed at Preston and Manchester; about a thousand prisoners submitted to the king's mercy, and petitioned for transportation. Pitts, the keeper of Newgate, being suspected of having connived at Forster's escape, was tried for his life at the Old-Bailey, and acquitted.
The lines were thrown over, and the fish bit quickly as soon as the steamer was at rest. In half an hour they had taken seven. "Keep her moving, Clingman," said Captain Scott, as the party hurried back to the cabin to continue the discussion. Pitts dressed the fish, and put them in the ice-chest. Achang had completed the skinning of the orang, and the skin was now drying in the sun.
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