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She realized that her remark had been unwarrantably spiteful, and wishing to make atonement, she said with a touch of coquetry which quickly spread balm over the honest yokel's injured vanity: "La! Master Jezzard, you do seem to make a body say some queer things.
As soon as I recognized the yacht, I turned quickly and walked away, but a minute later I ran into Leach and Jezzard, who were returning to their craft. Jezzard greeted me with an air of surprise. 'What! Still hanging about here, Ted? he exclaimed. 'That is not discreet of you, dear boy. I should earnestly advise you to clear out. "'What do you mean? I asked. "'Tut, tut! said he.
She loved to tease Master Jezzard, who was an indefatigable hanger-on at her pretty skirts, and whose easy conquest had rendered her somewhat contemptuous, but at the look of perplexed annoyance and bewildered distress in the lad's face, her better nature soon got the upper hand.
"No wonder she dotes on him!" signed pretty Mistress Polly after she had bobbed her curtsy to my lady. "The brave deeds he did for love of her! Rescued her from those murderers over in France and brought her to England safe and sound, having fought no end of them single-handed, so I've beard it said. Have you not, Master Thomas Jezzard?" And she looked defiantly at her meek-looking cavalier.
Burrows' evidence, and to all of it Thorndyke listened with an immovable countenance, though with the closest attention. Equally attentive was the accused man, though not equally impassive; indeed, so great was his agitation that presently one of the constables asked permission to get him a chair. The next witness was Arthur Jezzard.
"The broken heel and the tear in the rubber sole, with the remains of the chequered pattern, make the identity practically certain." As the chairman made this statement I involuntarily glanced round to the place where Jezzard was sitting. But he was not there; neither he, nor Pitford, nor Leach. Taking advantage of the preoccupation of the Court, they had quietly slipped out of the door.
It is true that he represents Jezzard as being the leading spirit and prime mover in the persecution, but we have only his word for that. Hearn was in lodgings near him, and was undoubtedly taking the most active part in the business, and it is quite possible, and indeed probable, that Hearn was the actual deus ex machina." Thorndyke nodded.
We had been playing bridge at his rooms, and once more my ill luck had caused me to increase my debt. I scribbled out an IOU, and pushed it across the table to Jezzard, who picked it up with a very wry face, and pocketed it. "'Look here, Ted, he said presently, 'this paper is all very well, but, you know, I can't pay my debts with it. My creditors demand hard cash.
Jezzard took a pair of shoes from it, for I saw them on the locker in the cabin the same day." "Did you ever see him wear them?" "No. I never see 'em again." "Have you ever heard sounds of hammering on the yacht?" "Yes. The night after the parcel came I was on the quay alongside, and I heard someone a-hammering in the cabin." "What did the hammering sound like?"
The yacht, too, had evidently settled down for some time at a berth in the harbour, for I heard that a local smack-boy had been engaged as a deck-hand; and I frequently encountered Jezzard and the other members of the gang, who all professed to believe that I had committed the Eastwich forgeries.
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