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Updated: June 11, 2025
And very, very seldom with any good result," answered the lawyer drily. "In fact all the best minds concerned with the question of crime have a great dislike to the reward system. Not once in a hundred cases is it of any use.
After they had been thoroughly studied, they were shown to Venero, who, seeing himself thus completely ruined, asked for pen and ink, and wrote a full confession. It appeared that the crime was purely a commercial speculation on the part of Anastro.
The preponderating element was the Anglo-Saxon, and its genius for law and order asserted itself. Each camp elected its own officers, recognized the customary laws and adopted special ones, and punished lawbreakers. Naturally theft was considered a more serious crime than it is in ordinary communities.
They recognized it instantly, and Pepeeta pressed close to the side of her lover. "You hear it for the last time," he whispered. "Thank God," she said. That name uttered in the darkness of the night startled him. The idea that he had cast a shuttle of crime into the great loom upon which the fabric of his life was being woven, took complete possession of his mind.
Having also their own judges and sheriffs, and not being obliged to go outside of their own walls to obtain justice, to enforce contracts and punish crime, their efficiency as independent self-governing bodies was great, and in many a troubled time they served as staunch bulwarks of English liberty.
And so, after the first few days of wonder and surmise and of speculation as to whether Darcy or King might have committed the crime, or perhaps some desperate burglar, the Darcy case was crowded off the front page of the newspapers to give way to items of more or less local interest in Colchester. Up and down the narrow cell paced James Darcy.
To my writer's fantasy Ecija seemed a fit background for some tragic story of passion or of crime. I dined, unromantically enough, with a pair of commercial travellers, a post-office clerk, and two stout, elderly men who appeared to be retired officers.
Mahr could have opened the door for her no one seemed to recall whether the chain was on in the morning or not. Was the crime one of anger or revenge? Why, then, the robbery?
You need not mind telling me." "I cannot say that I am aware of having committed any crime, Paul." "Come now, something must have happened, for the police does not take a step of that kind without some provocation it's only your beggarly Progressives who think that, but nobody who knows the fundamental principles of our government and its officials would believe it."
Deuce take it! I really believe that, if a man who's given to walking in his sleep had ever committed any crime, and hoarded it up as a secret ever so long, it could be extracted from him by questioning when he was in this peculiar state. Happy are they who have a clean conscience like you and me, Daniel!
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