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I looked at them more attentively, and then it suddenly dawned upon me, most unpleasantly, that they resembled Leach and Jezzard. And yet they were not quite like. The resemblance was there, but the differences were greater than the lapse of time would account for.
It is true that my four friends were my chief in fact, almost my only creditors, but still, the debts existed, and had to be paid. "Now these four friends of mine named respectively Leach, Pitford, Hearn, and Jezzard were uncommonly clever men, though the full extent of their cleverness was not appreciated by me until too late.
He testified that he had viewed the body, and identified it as that of Charles Hearn; that he had been acquainted with deceased for some years, but knew practically nothing of his affairs. At the time of his death deceased was lodging in the village. "Why did he leave the yacht?" the coroner inquired. "Was there any kind of disagreement!" "Not in the least," replied Jezzard.
Consequently, you can take it from me that, now Jezzard has run you to earth, he won't leave you in peace until you have given us some kind of a hold on you. You know too much, you see, and as long as you have a clean sheet you are a standing menace to us. That is the position. You know it, and Jezzard knows it, and he is a desperate man, and as cunning as the devil.
He said as we were rowing him ashore that he intended to walk home along the sands us the tide was out. He went up the stone steps by the watch-house, and turned at the top to wish us good-night. That was the last time I saw him alive." "Do you know anything of the relations between the accused and the deceased?" the coroner asked. "Very little," replied Jezzard. "Mr.
"'I know that, I said gloomily. "'Very well, continued Hearn. 'Now I'm going to make you an offer. Promise me a small annuity you can easily afford it or pay me a substantial sum down, and I will set you free for ever from Jezzard and the others. "'How will you do that? I asked. "'Very simply, he replied. 'I am sick of them all, and sick of this risky, uncertain mode of life.
But these jests were strictly confined to our own little set, for my four friends were most careful and anxious that my dangerous accomplishment should not become known to outsiders. "And now follows the consequence which you have no doubt foreseen. My debts, though small, were accumulating, and I saw no prospect of being able to pay them. Then, one night, Jezzard made a proposition.
The recognition, however, was not mutual, for I had grown a beard in the interval, and I passed on without appearing to notice him; but when I overtook the other three men, and recognized, as I had feared, the other three members of the gang, I must have looked rather hard at Jezzard, for he suddenly halted, and exclaimed: 'Why, it's our old friend Ted!
The second time was on the night when Mr. Hearn was murdered." "Do you remember what sort of boots the prisoner was wearing the first time he came?" "Yes. They were shoes with a lot of nails in the soles. I remember them because Mr. Jezzard made him take them off and put on a canvas pair." "What was done with the nailed shoes?" "Mr. Jezzard took 'em below to the cabin." "And did Mr.
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