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"Look here, Dexter," said Durgin, turning quickly on the speaker, "when I want to joke, I talk about your intelligence." "What kind of man is Taggett, anyhow?" asked Piggott. "You saw him, Durgin." "I believe he was at Justice Beemis's office the day Blufton and I was there; but I didn't make him out in the crowd. Shouldn't know him from Adam."
"That was hard on Tom Blufton," said Stevens, emptying the ashes out of his long-stemmed clay pipe, and refilling the bowl with cut cavendish from a jar on a shelf over his head. Michael Hennessey sat down his beer-mug with an air of argumentative disgust, and drew one sleeve across his glistening beard. "Stevens, you've as many minds as a weather-cock, jist!
Thomas Blufton was well known and esteemed in Stillwater, but if the crime had fastened itself upon him it would have given something like popular satisfaction. In the course of the ensuing forty-eight hours four or five tramps were overhauled as having been in the neighborhood at the time of the tragedy; but they each had a clean story, and were let go.
Didn't ye say yerself it looked mighty black for the lad when he was took?" "I might have said something of the sort," Stevens admitted reluctantly, after a pause. "His driving round at daybreak with an empty cart did have an ugly look at first." "Indade, then." "Not to anybody who knew Tom Blufton," interrupted Samuel Piggott, Blufton's brother-in-law. "The boy hasn't a bad streak in him.
But it was only Blufton's son Tom, of South Millville, who had started in hot haste that particular morning to secure medical service for his wife, of which she had sorely stood in need, as two tiny girls in a willow cradle in South Millville now bore testimony. "I haven't been cutting down the population much," said Blufton, with his wholesome laugh.
Taggett, and I shall disregard the advice. After you have answered me one or two questions, I shall be quite at your service." "If you insist, then." "You were present at the examination of Thomas Blufton and William Durgin, were you not?" "I was." "You recollect William Durgin's testimony?" "Most distinctly."
Neither Thomas Blufton, nor William Durgin, nor any of the tramps subsequently obliged to drop into autobiography could be connected with the affair. These first failures served to stimulate Mr. Taggett; it required a complex case to stir his ingenuity and sagacity. That the present was not a complex case he was still convinced, after four days' futile labor upon it. Mr.
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