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Then, of course, you carried on, promised to get him more and more; said you could force a fortune from Mr. Penny, anything to keep the young man. Hey?" he demanded suddenly. The woman looked up with a haggard wonder, an irrepressible shudder; her hands raised and fell, and she nodded dumbly. "Then, while Culser was in the house, Mr.
I can produce a witness to the fact that this Culser openly said that he expected shortly to come into more money. And he had dishonoured debts all about. You will have to appear, Mr. Penny; no way out of that, but our defence should go like a song. Now, Mrs. Scofield, I have a carriage outside." When they had gone Jasper Penny and Jannan sat in a lengthening silence.
"I'll go over a few facts this Daniel Culser, you were in love with him; no length you wouldn't go, lost your senses completely; and he all he cared about was the money he could wring out of you. As soon as you were paid the sums that Mr. Penny allowed you, this Culser got it from you; he took every cent and wanted more. Said he would leave you unless you got hold of something really worth while.
Penny unexpectedly turned up and said perhaps before Daniel himself that you could expect nothing more, and made it plain that he was not to be intimidated. Daniel Culser was for leaving you, didn't intend to hang around for a bloody little quarterly; and, when you realized that he meant, or you thought he meant, what he said, you went crazy and shot him.... What!"
Penny had spoken to you of his his relations with Mrs. Scofield, the woman in whose house Culser was killed. Did he refer to her on this particular evening, standing by the river's brink?" Susan replied in the negative. "Did he seem ill at ease, worried about anything? Was he hurried in manner?"
Babb caught her arm under his, and, at an imperious gesture from Essie, piloted her from the room. Culser rose. "Don't go, Dan," Essie Scofield told him defiantly. But Jasper Penny maintained a silence that forced the younger man to make a stiff exit. "Well," Essie demanded, flinging herself on the deserted sofa, "now you've spoiled my evening.
"Romantic and youthful folly," Jannan declared; "loud-sounding and useless. How little you understand Susan immediately it is known Culser was killed between seven and nine, whether you stay or go, she will come forward with the truth, free you from any suspicion. I tell you every detail will be canvassed, familiar to the boys on the street.
As he had expected Daniel Culser was present, and rose to greet him negligently, from a lounging attitude on the sofa. His coat, cut back to the knees, was relentlessly tapered, the collar enormously rolled and revered, and a white Marseilles waistcoat bore black spots as large as a Bolivian half dollar; while a black scarf, it was called the Du Casses, fell in an avalanche of ruffles.
Will the railroad survive the experimental stage, and are such gentlemen as yourself behind it?" "I saw in the Ledger some days back," Daniel Culser added, "that your arm had been broken travelling by steam." "One had nothing to do with the other," Jasper stated tersely, ignoring Babb's query, "but was entirely my own fault."
"Wine in the cooler," Essie added, and Daniel Culser moved to where a silver bucket reposed by a tray of glasses and broken, sugared rusks. Jasper Penny refused the offered drink, and found a chair apart from the others. A moody silence enveloped him which he found impossible to break, and an increasing uneasiness spread over the room. "Well," Essie Scofield commanded, "say something.
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