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Brereton took the note and stepped aside into a quiet corner: the young man followed and stood near. To Brereton's surprise he found himself looking at a letter in the handwriting of a London solicitor who had two or three times favoured him with a brief. He hastily glanced through its contents:
An anxious week I had after the army reached New York, till I received Colonel Brereton's letter telling me of your safety, though that only assured me as to the past, and I knew that any moment the rascally Whigs might take to persecuting ye again." "Nay, Lambert," said Mrs. Meredith, "not a one has offered us the slightest annoyance.
Meredith twice reverted to the subject of their midnight discussion, but each time only to find her husband unyieldingly persistent that Janice was pledged to Philemon, and that if this bar did not exist, he would never countenance Brereton's suit. As for the girl, she shunned all allusion to the matter, taking refuge in a proud silence.
Bent laid a hand on Cotherstone's arm and turned him in the direction of his house. "Brereton and I'll go with the sergeant," he said. "You must go home Lettie'll be anxious about things. Go down with him, Mr. Garthwaite you'll both hear more later." To Brereton's great surprise, Cotherstone made no objection to this summary dismissal.
Summing up the situation with lamentations, six weeks later, he said to Davison: "When I follow my own head, I am, in general, much more correct in my judgment, than following the opinion of others. I resisted the opinion of General Brereton's information till it would have been the height of presumption to have carried my disbelief further.
He, in common with all the rest of the townsfolk who had contrived to squeeze into the old court-house, had been immensely interested in Brereton's examination of Miss Pett. Now he wanted to know what it meant, what it signified, what was its true relation to the case?
Well, we'd better have the body removed there, and some one should go up and warn his family." "There's no family," answered Cotherstone. "He'd naught but a housekeeper Miss Pett. She's an elderly woman and not likely to be startled, from what I've seen of her." "I'll go," said Bent. "I know the housekeeper." He touched Brereton's elbow, and led him away amongst the trees and up the wood.
"Find the murderer!" exclaimed Avice with a quick flash of her eyes in Brereton's direction. "My father is as innocent as I am find the man who did it and clear him that way. Don't wait for what these police people do they'll waste time over my father. Do something! They're all on the wrong track let somebody get on the right one!"
The object of the expedition was to make peace between certain Dyak tribes who had long been enemies, and to build a fort on the Rejang River, similar to Mr. Brereton's fort at Sakarran, and for the same purpose. An Englishman named Steele was to occupy the fort with some Malays.
But Brereton's sharp eyes saw at once that after he had been flung at the foot of the mass of rock some hand had disarranged his clothing.
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