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At last he got again to his knees; finally and shakily to his feet. "Jimmie tol' me to watch him," he muttered thickly. "An' him an' Charlie did have words...." He stared at them stupidly, hesitated, pondered the matter. Then he turned and went lumbering down the road. Comstock, stepping forward swiftly, called out: "I say, Bedloe! None of that...." But Bedloe neither turned again nor paused.
"An' you won't tell nobody but him, will you, Buck?" "No. I won't tell any one else. Who is it?" "It's a man as may be crooked with some," said Clayton slowly. "But he's awful square with a pal. It's a man name of Bedloe. They call him the Kid." So the next day Buck Thornton rode away to the south and to Hill's Corners.
But the sight of that congregation this morning, mixed as it was, and the way he managed to weld it together." "Ah, you noticed that!" she exclaimed sharply. "Noticed it!" "I know. It was a question of feeling it." There was a silence. "Will he succeed?" she asked presently. "Ah," said Bedloe Hubbell, "how is it possible to predict it?
His business had been done for him, and he had escaped the guilt of it. His second, that here lay a chance of fair profit. Godfrey was a great man, and Bedloe and Carstairs were the seediest of rogues. He might make favor for himself with the Government if he had them caught red-handed. It would help his status in Aldersgate Street.... But he must act at once or the murderers would be gone.
It was the favor and countenance of the parliament which had chiefly encouraged the rumor of plots; but the nation had gotten so much into that vein of credulity, and every necessitous villain was so much incited by the success of Oates and Bedloe, that even during the prorogation the people were not allowed to remain in tranquillity.
Pollard, himself, could kill him, admit the deed and claim that he was but protecting his own premises. Any one of the Bedloe boys could shoot him and who would know? Another suspicion, allied to this one, came and darkened the frown in his eyes.
"I wonder if you know, Mr. Hodder, what an admirer Mr. Hubbell is of yours?" Alison asked. "He is most anxious to have a talk with you." Hodder did not know. "Well," said Phil, enthusiastically, to the rector, "that's the best tribute you've had yet. I can't say that Bedloe was a more unregenerate heathen than I was, but he was pretty bad."
At the first trials for the Plot, when the whole stream of popularity ran against the accused, no one had been so loud as Scroggs; to attempt to the character of Oates or Bedloe, or any other leading witnesses, he treated as a crime more heinous than it would have been to blaspheme the Gospel on which they had been sworn it was a stifling of the Plot, or discrediting of the King's witnesses a crime not greatly, if at all, short of high treason against the King himself.
Though Bedloe had given information of Godfrey's murder, he still remained a single evidence against the persons accused; and all the allurements of profit and honor had not hitherto tempted any one to confirm the testimony of that informer. At last, means were found to complete the legal evidence.
Chance had it that the cover was off of the little used billiard table and that two men, in shirt-sleeved comfort, were playing. Both men he knew. They were Charley Bedloe and his brother, the Kid. The Bedloe boys were intent upon their game, the Kid laughing softly at a miscue Charley had made.
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