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His face softened and quivered as he met the Doctor's kind eyes; but bracing himself again, he looked up, answered the coroner's question that his Christian name was Leonard Axworthy, his age within a few weeks of eighteen; and asked permission to fetch what he should want from his room. The policeman, in whose charge he was, consented both to this, and to Dr.
The terrified servants held confused consultation, and while the groom had hurried off to give the alarm at Whitford, and ride on in search of Sam Axworthy, Hardy had taken another horse and started to inform Henry Ward, but his heart failing him, he had come to beg the Doctor to break the intelligence to the family. Dr.
They found a superintendent within, and he at once began, 'Most unfortunate business, Mr. Mayor very mysterious; then, as a sign from the Doctor made him aware of Henry Ward's near concern, he added, 'Shall I inform young Mr. Axworthy that you are here? 'Is he come? 'Yes, sir. He had only slept at the Three Goblets, not half a mile across the fields, you know, Mr.
Well, I told them it would not do thought I had settled them saw them off home yes, Simpson, and Benson, and Grey, up the High Street, and the others their way. I only left Axworthy going into a shop when I set off on my walk. What could a fellow do more?
'You must know it, Sam, said Leonard. 'Don't you remember his putting in the cheque old Bilson's cheque for his year's rent twenty-five pounds? I brought it in, and he put it away one day last week. You were sitting there. Sam stammered something of 'Yes, he did recollect something of it. Inquiries were made of the other persons concerned with Mr. Axworthy.
Could this have been the case, had the key of the drawer of gold been taken from the waistcoat pocket, the chain from about the neck of the deceased, and both replaced after the removal of the money and relocking the drawer! Can any one doubt that the drawer was opened, the money taken out, and the lock secured, while Mr. Axworthy was alive and consenting?
"You'll keep me from Ned Anderson and Axworthy?" whispered Tom. "Yes, that I will. And you'll try and speak the truth, and be straightforward?" "I will, I will," said Tom, worn out in spirits by his long bondage, and glad to catch at the hope of relief and protection.
Lumber was done in our part of Michigan and he had to follow it further south. He and Mary corresponded, for I caught Belle in the act of correcting one of her letters. "Do you think that's quite fair to Axworthy? If they become engaged, the first unedited letter he gets from Mary will be considerable of a surprise to him." "Don't you bother your old head, Dave! I'm running this thing!
It was not fruitless; Larkins did avoid mischief when it was not extremely inviting, was more amenable to May senior, and having been put in mind by him of his home, was not ashamed to bring the thought to the aid of his eyes, when, on Sunday, during a long sermon of Mr. Ramsden's, he knew that Axworthy was making the grimace which irresistibly incited him to make a still finer one.
Whenever Sam knew that he had a sum of money, he laid hands on it. Nothing was safe from him that Mr. Axworthy had in the Whitford Bank. 'That can be proved from the accounts? 'You recollect the little parlour between the office and my uncle's sitting-room? There I used to sit in the evening, and to feel, rather than hear, the way Sam used to bully the poor old man.
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