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"I suppose that thirst of yours is unimpaired?" inquired Langham. His burning eyes never for an instant forsook the dark outline of the handy-man's slouching figure. "I dunno, boss, I ain't been drinkin' much lately. Liquor's a bully thing to keep the holes in your pants, and your toes out where you can look at 'em if you want to. I dunno as I'll ever take up whisky-drinkin' again," concluded Mr.
The handy-man's table manners were not his strong point. "Oh, I guess his chest is all right!" he paused to say. "I thought it was best to be on the safe side, so I took him up-town and had his health examined by a doctor. He had to take off his shirt so he could hear Arthur's lungs." "Well, I'm damned, what did he do that for?" cried Joe, profoundly astonished.
But a veil of mystery obscured every fact that bore on the handy-man's disappearance; no eye penetrated it, no hand lifted it. Soon after Montgomery's disappearance his deserted wife fell upon evil times indeed. In spite of her bravest efforts the rent fell hopelessly in arrears. For a time her pride kept her away from the Shrimplins, who might have helped her.
But Langham was a pace or two in advance of him when they stepped out on the bridge. Never once did he glance in the handy-man's direction. Had he done so, Montgomery must have been aware that his face showed bloodless in the moonlight, while his sunken eyes blazed with an unaccustomed fire. "I can't walk these ties, Joe give me your hand " he managed to say.
"You have admitted that your whole story of seeing John North on the night of the McBride murder is a lie," said the judge. "Boss, there is truth enough in it to hang a man!" "You saw a man cross McBride's sheds?" And the judge kept his eyes fastened on the handy-man's face. "I seen a man cross McBride's shed, boss." "And you have sworn that that man was John North." "I swore to a lie.
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