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"Didn't you tell me you were willing to take oath that the lad whom you caused to be arrested and the horse-thief were one and the same person?" "Y-e-e-s, s-i-r," hesitated the thick head. "Are you willing to swear to the same thing now?" "N-n-o, your honor, that is, not hexactly. Someway he don't look the same now as he did then."
"P-l-e-a-s-e, s-i-r, I d-i-d-n't t-r-y t-o d-o i-t," I falter, in a weak, gasping voice that brings tears to the eyes of the assembled officers and melts the captain's heart, so that he is already wavering between justice and mercy when a local wheelman comes gallantly to the rescue, and explains my natural ignorance of Cleveland's city laws, and I breathe the joyous air of freedom once again.
An' they ain't no fire kindled in the settin'-room, to lay it in there. S-i-r? Well, yas, I I reck'n I'll haf to hold it, ef you say so that is of co'se Wait, doctor! Don't let go of it yet! Lordy! but I'm thess shore to drop it! Lemme set down first, doctor, here by the fire an' git het th'ugh. Not yet! My ol' shin-bones stan' up thess like a pair o' dog-irons.
"Y-e-s, s-i-r," gasped Jane, fetching her breath again after the shaking; "but go for the police. My mistress is being murdered." "Mr. Hope is looking after that, and the screams have ceased. Who was with your mistress?" "I don't know, sir," sobbed the servant. "I didn't know anyone had called, and then I heard the screaming.
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