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Later very much later, when something like lucid coherence had become an attribute of their conversation, as they sat together upon the old sofa, the man drew a long breath and said: "Then I'm quite forgiven?" "There is nothing to forgive." "And you consider yourself engaged to BOTH John Smith and Stanley G. Fulton?" "It sounds pretty bad, but yes," blushed Miss Maggie.
He was sorry it had happened. He did not believe there was the shadow of a case against him. He rose and handed the watch to Miss Fulton. "No," she objected; "I don't want it. You and Mr. Braceway, perhaps, will make use of it." He hesitated before putting it into his pocket. "Why did you send for me, Miss Fulton?" he asked, after thanking her for doing so.
Enid Fulton Withers, beauty and society favourite of Atlanta and Washington, became known here today. "Samuel S. Braceway, probably the ablest private detective in this country, left this city yesterday afternoon for Furmville, N. C., the scene of the crime, after he had completed an exhaustive investigation here and in Baltimore of more or less obscure matters related to the murder.
After a while Verplanck and I went forth and sauntered along in the darkness through the deserted streets, among the tenantless and gloomy houses, till we reached the point where his path would diverge for Broadway and up-town, and mine for Fulton Ferry and Brooklyn Heights.
"Now this second copy bore the same ear-marks as the one in my possession the edges of the canvas marred and jagged, the Fulton Street label on the back. What was this mystery? "Mystery yes, and behind it the shadow of a crime, of a human tragedy. Who was to lift the veil? There was but one man Clive Richmond who could answer my question; and where was Clive Richmond?
He narrated all the facts he had learned from Abrahamson and Roddy, and concluded with the story Withers had told him on the station platform. He held back none of the details. Evidently, his irritation toward Withers had subsided. When Bristow handed him the watch Maria Fulton had found, he said laughingly: "It's a good thing George told me about it, isn't it?
"Some little imaginer I am," he laughed to himself as he skipped back into the house. The sun was not up earlier next morning than Jerry Ring. However, he waited till after breakfast before going over to rouse Mr. Fulton, Who would, he knew, sleep later after his strenuous night's work.
It ought, at the same time, to be remembered that all that was afterwards done by Symington, Fulton, and Bell, followed long after the performance of this ever-memorable achievement. I may also mention, as worthy of special record, that the hull of this first steamboat was of iron. It was constructed of tinned iron plate.
Homatropine is the basic element of his preparation. "Some day women will hear of it and maake him rich. He deserves it." Fulton, after he had read that, looked at Braceway out of tortured eyes. This turning of his tragedy into jest defied his strength. "That's enough of that," Braceway raised his voice above the clatter of the typewriter. "Get down to the crime, or stop!"
During those first ten nights I hardly slept at all. Sometimes I would picture out Lucy's whole course of life during the next few months. And I imagined that, grown at last utterly indifferent through suffering, she might drift back into her former relations with Fulton, if only because he loved her so much, and no one can keep on saying no forever.
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