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Brellier," replied Merriton wearily. "But he went. You know Dacre Wynne as well as I do. He was set upon going. But he has not come back, and some of the chaps here set up a search-party to hunt for him. They discovered nothing. Simply some charred grass in the middle of the Fens and the end of his footprints.... So he didn't come round to your place then? Thanks.
He was a fool to believe the thing, and yet He certainly didn't want to die yet awhile, with Antoinette Brellier a mere handful of yards away from him, and all the days his own to cultivate her acquaintance in. "You've fairly made my flesh creep with your beastly story!" he said, in a rather high-pitched voice. "Might have reserved it until morning after my début in this haunt of spirits, Borkins.
It wasn't long after this he was telling Brellier the good news that 'Toinette had accepted, and the two of them came to tell him of their happiness. "So?" Mr. Brellier said quietly. "Well, I am very, very glad.
And thus was made a convenient little subway for the carrying on of nefarious transactions of the kind which we have discovered." "And how did you discover that Brellier was the 'Master' in question?" put in the judge at this juncture. "He happened to come to the factory one day while we were at work upon our machines. Someone said, 'Crickey! 'Ere's the Master!
Brellier; indeed I've no doubt he would be, if the traditions of the house had not so long lain in his hands." He was rewarded for this remark by a sudden tightening of Brellier's lips, and then by an equally sudden smile. They were very good friends these days Brellier and Merriton, and got on very excellently together.
This rather aroused her curiosity, and when I questioned her afterward about it, when the inquest was over, and she had brought it forward and shown it to the coroner, who quite naturally after the explanation given by Mr. Brellier, gave it back to her as having no dealings with the case, she told me that she could not absolutely recollect her uncle telling her that he had killed the dog with it.
He took to going regularly to Withersby Hall, and became an expected guest, dropping in at all hours to wile away an hour or two in 'Toinette's company, or else to have a quiet game of billiards with Brellier, or a cigar in company with both of them, in the garden, while the sun was still up. He never mentioned the flames to them again. But he never investigated them either.
Of course, it is true, as my uncle said. But I was so anxious so anxious! And there seemed just a chance. You understand?" "I do, Miss Brellier. And I am sorry that the evidence in this case is of no use to us. Constable, take the prisoner away to await higher justice.
It cut him like a lash to see her thus, and yet the longing for her was so great that it superseded all else. So he faced the man with a grim smile. "I suppose, Bennett, that I shall be allowed to see Miss Brellier? You have made enquiries?" "Yes, sir." Bennett was crestfallen and rather ashamed of his duty. "Any restrictions?" Bennett hedged. "Well if you please Sir Nigel that is "
"In the first place, Dacre Wynne was shot through the temple at the instigation of that man there," he pointed to Brellier, standing pale and still between two constables, "foully shot, as many others had been similarly done to death, because they had ventured forth across the Fens at night, and were likely to investigate this man's charming little midnight movements, further than he cared about.
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