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Updated: May 8, 2025
Then, just at the entrance, as the yacht was creeping out, the trawler hit her amidships, and fairly cut her in two. The three men were in the water in an instant, and were swept away in the eddy behind the north pier; and before any boat could put out to them they had all gone under. Jezzard's body came up on the beach just as I was coming away."
While he was lookin' at 'em he asks me to fetch a pair of mine from the fo'c'sle, so I fetches 'em. When I come back he was pitchin' the boots and shoes back into the locker. Then, presently, he nips off, and when he was gone I looked over the shoes, and then I found there was a pair missing. They was an old pair of Mr. Jezzard's, and what made him nick 'em is more than I can understand."
"I said that it would, and as the man turned away, Jezzard's face broke out into a cunning smile. "So you are Mr. Draper, of Sundersley, now, are you? said he. 'Well, I hope you won't be too proud to come and look in on your old friends. We shall be staying here for some time. "That same night Hearn made his appearance at my house.
He said that he wanted to get home early, as his housekeeper was away and he did not like the house to be left with no one in it." This was the whole of Jezzard's evidence, and was confirmed by that of Leach and Pitford.
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