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I was an ear-witness to a dispute between Levison and Otway Bethel." "Indeed!" carelessly replied Mr. Carlyle, who was busy at the time looking for something in the deep drawer of the desk. "And what I heard would go far to hang Levison, if not Bethel. As sure as we are here, Mr. Archibald, they hold the secret of Hallijohn's murder. It appears that Levison " "Stop!" interposed Mr. Carlyle.
Barbara did not contest the point; she turned to the one nearer at heart. "What must be our course with regard to Thorn?" "It is more than I can tell you," replied Mr. Carlyle. "I cannot go up to the man and unceremoniously accuse him of being Hallijohn's murderer." They took their way to the house, for there was nothing further to discuss.
Archibald, what do you think?" concluded the old clerk; "and so far as I could make out, this was about the very time of the tragedy at Hallijohn's." "Think?" replied Mr. Carlyle. "What can I think but that it is the same man. I am convinced of it now." And, leaning back into his chair, he fell into a deep reverie, regardless of the parchments that lay before him.
I leaped up the two steps, and fell over the prostrate body of Hallijohn. He was lying dead within the door. My gun, just discharged, was flung on the floor, its contents in Hallijohn's side." You might have heard a pin drop in court, so intense was the interest. "There appeared to be no one in the cottage, upstairs or down. I called to Afy, but she did not answer.
"Well, there was a row at home about my going so much to Hallijohn's. The governor and my mother thought I went after Afy; perhaps I did, and perhaps I didn't. Hallijohn had asked me to lend him my gun, and that evening, when I went to see Af when I went to see some one never mind " "Richard," interrupted Mr.
Hallijohn's murderer had a curious look here, sir." "Where?" questioned Mr. Carlyle, for Richard had only pointed to his face generally. "Well I cannot say precisely where it lay, whether in the eyebrows or the eyes; I could not tell when I used to have him before me; but it was in one of them. Ah, Mr.
"This must have been during the period of Afy Hallijohn's sojourn with him. Did you also see her?" Mr. Ebenezer opened his eyes. He knew nothing of the evidence just given by Afy, and wondered how on earth it had come out that she had been with Thorn at all. He had never betrayed it. "Afy?" stammered he. "Yes, Afy," sharply returned the lawyer.
He was a quarter of a mile, nearly, away from it. I was much nearer the cottage than he." "Go on." "I could not imagine what that shot meant, or who could have fired it not that I suspected mischief and I knew that poachers did not congregate so near Hallijohn's cottage.
"Did you see him there on the night of Hallijohn's murder?" "No. I was not there myself that evening, so could not have seen him." "Did a suspicion cross your mind at any time that he may have been guilty of the murder?" "Never. Richard Hare was accused of it by universal belief, and it never occurred to me to suppose he had not done it."
But not from the motives you assume. It concerns that affair of Hallijohn's," Mr. Carlyle continued, bending forward, and somewhat dropping his voice. "The murder." Lawyer Ball, who had just taken in a delicious bonne bouche of the foie gras, bolted it whole in his surprise. "Why, that was enacted ages and ages ago; it is past and done with," he exclaimed. "Not done with," said Mr. Carlyle.
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