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Beard's statement, don't you?" the coroner inquired. "I do." "Then let us end this harrowing scene. I suppose my first duty is to discharge Mrs. Collins from custody?" "There is no longer any reason for holding her," said Britz. "As for Ward, I shall have to hold him for the formal inquest," the coroner announced. "I don't believe he'll try to evade us," said Britz.
They were reception-rooms of great size, so far as I could judge; but the sun was the other side of the house, and only an eastern light came in through the chinks of the window shutters. The rooms were full of sheeted shapes in the dimness. I don't think I could have brought myself to go into them. I know I closed each door with a hasty bang, as though it had been a Blue Beard's Chamber.
Mr. Whitmore's death has not changed matters. Follow Mr. Beard's instructions and I shall carry out faithfully my promise to you. "Yours in haste, GEORGE." Britz stowed the letter in his pocket, then summoned Muldoon. "Now tell what happened," he said. It required some effort on the part of the policeman to gather his thoughts.
"How can I have?" she replied with a faint smile. "He didn't invite me to see him do it." "Then you simply believe he committed the murder because he had threatened to do so?" In a carefully planned murder it is always safe to mistrust the obvious. Beard's outburst against Collins had seemed a genuine eruption of uncontrollable emotions, at first.
But on whom would Britz fasten the crime? "Now let us take up Beard," proceeded the detective as if narrating a commonplace happening in the routine of police duty. "He is named in Whitmore's will as one of the executors of the estate. But so is Luckstone! Surely that is no motive for murder. My men have investigated Beard's life. There's nothing in it to discredit him in the least.
"Reckon no one knows but who's right here," replied Blicky. "Red an' Gul are sleepin' off last night's luck," said Bate Wood. "Have any of you seen young Cleve?" Kells went on. His voice rang quick and sharp. No one spoke, and presently Kells cracked his fist into his open hand. "Come on. Get the gang together at Beard's.... Boys, the time we've been gambling on has come.
An individual with a soil for a neurasthenic reaction to life will become neurasthenic when confronted by any stone wall, including a serious ailment within himself. Beard's Neurasthenia leaped at once into the limelight.
But to return from this digression: Having been completely routed at Little Beard's Town, deprived of a house, and without the means of building one in season, after I had finished my husking, and having found from the short acquaintance which I had had with the negroes, that they were kind and friendly, I concluded, at their request, to take up my residence with them for a while in their cabin, till I should be able to provide a hut for myself.
Not far from them on the river was a village of the Tuscaroras. Two miles below was Oneida Town, a large village of Oneidas. Near the present site of West Avon was another principal village, whose chief was Ga-kwa-dia, or Hot Bread. Above was another large village called Little Beard's Town, occupying the present site of Cuylerville.
"This will be easy, colonel, unless he calls one of Blue Beard's comforters to his succor." "Be easy about that; for with your assistance I can place my hand on him and then though he were surrounded by a hundred men armed to the teeth he is mine; I have a sure means of obliging him to obey me; this concerns me.
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