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Notice Afy Hallijohn, when she dresses and flirts and minces as you saw her but now! What creditable servant would flaunt abroad in such a dress and bonnet as that, with that flimsy gauze thing over her face. It's as disreputable as your shirt-front." Mr. Dill coughed humbly, not wishing to renew the point of the shirt-front.
I don't know whether he was of me." "May I inquire what was the nature of your friendship for Miss Afy Hallijohn?" "I loved her with an honorable love, as I might have done by any young lady in my own station of life. I would not have married her in opposition to my father and mother; but I told Afy that if she was content to wait for me until I was my own master I would then make her my wife."
"I do not understand you," said Mr. Carlyle. He did not. It was as good as Hebrew to him. "The Levison of to-day, your opponent, is the Thorn who went after Afy Hallijohn. It is so, Mr. Archibald." "It cannot be!" slowly uttered Mr. Carlyle, thought upon thought working havoc with his brain. "Where did you hear this?" Mr. Dill told his tale.
Ebenezer James came forward to prove it. "What do you know of the prisoner, Sir Francis Levison?" questioned Justice Herbert. "Not much," responded Mr. Ebenezer. "I used to know him as Captain Thorn." "Captain Thorn?" "Afy Hallijohn called him captain; but I understood he was but a lieutenant." "From whom did you understand that?" "From Afy. She was the only person I heard speak of him."
So the two were fully committed to take their trial for the "Wilful murder, otherwise the killing and slaying of George Hallijohn;" and before night would be on their road to the county prison at Lynneborough. And that vain, ill-starred Afy! What of her?
I suppose you know that he's elected, Miss Hallijohn?" "No, I didn't." "The other was withdrawn by his friends, so they made short work of it, and Mr. Carlyle is our member. God bless him! there's not many like him. But, I say, Miss Hallijohn, whatever is it that the other one has done? Murder, they say. I can't make top nor tail of it. Of course we know he was bad enough before."
Ebenezer, his own scruples removed, but wondering still how it had been discovered, unless Afy had as he had prophesied she would let out in her "tantrums." "In fact, it was Afy whom I first saw." "State the circumstances." "I was up Paddington way one afternoon, and saw a lady going into a house. It was Afy Hallijohn. She lived there, I found had the drawing-room apartments.
"From your description of the Lieutenant Thorn who destroyed Hallijohn, we believe this Captain Thorn to be the same man," pursued Mr. Carlyle. "In person he appears to tally exactly; and I have ascertained that a few years ago he was a deal at Swainson, and got into some sort of scrape. He is in John Herbert's regiment, and is here with him on a visit."
"Afy," replied she, looking daggers at everybody, and sedulously keeping her back turned upon Francis Levison and Otway Bethel. "You name in full, if you please. You were not christened 'Afy'?" "Aphrodite Hallijohn. You all know my name as well as I do. Where's the use of asking useless questions?" "Swear the witness," spoke up Mr. Justice Hare. The first word he had uttered.
'Somebody having a late pop at the partridges, thought I; for the sun was then setting, and at the moment I saw Bethel emerge from the trees, and run in the direction of the cottage. That was the shot that killed Hallijohn." There was a pause. Mr. Carlyle looked keenly at Richard there in the moonlight.
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