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"You do not recollect any other circumstance?" "The lamp on the table was burnin' and ther' wan't much oil left in it. I seen Miss Angerline blow it out, after the Doctor come." "Who found the chloroform vial?" "Don't know." "Did you hear any name mentioned as that of the murderer?" "Miss Angerline tole the Crowner, that ef the will was missin', Gen'l Darrington's granddaughter had stole it.
Sez I: 'Well, Miss Angerline, you had better sarch me and be done with it, if you are the judge, and the jury, and the crowner, and the law, and have got the job to run this case. Sez she, a-squinting them venomous eyes of her'n, till they looked like knitting needles red hot: 'I leave the sarching to be done by the cunstable when you are 'rested and handcuffed for 'betting of murder. Then my dander riz.
"You wimmen would ruther say that, than eat pound cake. Supposin' you did tell me, what's the upshot?" "That gimlet-eyed weasel is snuffing round you and me; but we won't turn out to be spring chickens, ready picked." "Which is to signify that Miss Angerline smells a mouse? Don't talk parables, Dyce. What's she done now?" "She is hankering after that hankchiff.
"Did you hear any part of the conversation between the prisoner and Gen'l Darrington?" "No, sir! I'm above the meanness of eavesdrapping." "How did you learn that she was the granddaughter of Gen'l Darrington?" "Miss Angerline, the white 'oman what mends and sews, come to the back piazer, and beckoned me to run there.
I reckon I hollered, but I can't say, for the next thing I knowed, the horsler and the cook, and Miss Angerline, and Dyce, my ole 'oman, and Gord knows who all, was streamin' in and out and screamin'." "What was the condition of the room?" "The front window was up, and the blinds was flung wide open, and a cheer was upside clown close to it.
They two, with some other gentleman, sarched the vault, and Miss Angerline said everything was higgledy piggledy and no will there." "You testified before the Coroner?" "Yes, sir." "Why did you not give him the handkerchief you found?" "I didn't have it then." "When and where did you get it? Be very careful now."
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