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When factions usurped the supremacy of the Kings, vigilance augmented with insecurity; and almost everybody who was not an opposer, who refused being an accomplice, or feared to be a victim, was obliged to serve as an informer and vilify himself by becoming a spy.
In the same year another inspector, Williams, acted as informer, and secured a conviction against a woman. Later, an inspector by the name of Peam, who succeeded Williams, employed police constables as informers, and lent them money for the purpose. All these performed their tasks in "plain clothes," as was the practice through subsequent years.
"What do you mean?" demanded the detective. "The men demand that you join us." "I will not. You will give me a chance for my life?" "What chance do you want?" "I wish to prove that my accuser is a liar." "That would not help you, unless you become one of us; the fact that you have learned our methods settles the business, whether you are an informer or not.
Tom had been called upon to testify as a witness in regard to the shooting. He had heard the informer ask the peddler of charcoal and the farmer to run against the effigy with their teams; had seen the snowballs and brickbat fly, the shooting, and had assisted in caring for the wounded and summoning Doctor Warren. "Have you any idea, Tom, who placed the effigy there?" Mrs. Brandon asked.
Paul said "accidentally," because he believed that Shuffles had been betrayed into the revelation by their former intimacy. "And he does not wish to be regarded as an informer," added the principal. "No, sir; after he had excited my curiosity, he told me where I could find the gamblers at play." "I understand his position, precisely," said Mr. Lowington; "and I will not ask his name.
She requested and obtained a full description of the informer, and his person was too remarkable for Nancy not to recognise immediately who it was. "The villain!" cried she; "why if there was any man in whom we thought we could trust, it was him;" for Nancy had, in her indignation, nearly pronounced his name.
"If he were an informer he would have kept up appearances instead of cursing it all and going away," observed some one. "See, Stavrogin is getting up too. Stavrogin has not answered the question either," cried the girl-student. Stavrogin did actually stand up, and at the other end of the table Kirillov rose at the same time. "Excuse me, Mr.
Godfrey no sooner received this intimation, than, his blood boiling with grief and impatience, he craved pardon for his abrupt departure; then quitting his informer on the instant, re-embarked in his hackney-coach, and ordered himself to be conveyed directly to the Fleet.
"What would I say?" he said at length, bitterly and scornfully, as he rose from his seat with rigid limbs. "I would say " He stopped; his teeth were clinched. He drew one hand impatiently across his face. The idea that Simeon Stagg must have been the informer had at that moment got possession of his mind. "Never ask me what I would say," he cried.
"I am not a judge and I will not be an informer; but if I were a magistrate I should have known the name of that woman who trembles at every sound, at every word, while forced to keep her features calm and serene under pain of going to the scaffold with her lover. She has nothing to fear, however. I have seen the man; he will carry the secret of that passionate love to the grave with him."
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