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His youth will be in his favor, though I'd hang him myself had I the chance, and so put him beyond the reach of hurting anyone. But I expect he'll get a long sentence." "And Mrs. Krill?" "Mrs. Jessop you mean. Hum! I don't know. She apparently was ignorant that Maud killed Krill, though she might have guessed it, after the way in which Lady Rachel was murdered. I daresay she'll get off.
I've seen many drunk in many places," said Jessop, "but anyone who held his liquor wuss nor Krill I never did see. He'd knife you as soon as look at you when drunk." "But he evidently preferred strangling." "Hold on, mate," said Jessop, with another deep pull at the rum. "I'm comin' to that night. We wos both on the bust, as y'may say, and Mrs.
Then I come here and you nabbed me," and Jessop finished his rum. "That's all I know." "Do you swear you left Aaron Norman alive?" "Meaning Krill? I do. He wasn't no use to me dead, and I made him give me the jewels Pash had, d'ye see." "But who warned you of the death when you were waiting?"
"I should never have credited him with so much sense," said Mrs. Krill, contemptuously. "While at Christchurch he was nothing but a drunkard, whining when sober, and a furious beast when drunk. I managed all the house, and looked after my little daughter. Lemuel led me a dog's life, and we quarrelled incessantly. At length, when Maud was old enough to be my companion, Lemuel ran away.
"Five weeks or so," said Hay, smiling, and sinking his voice lower, he added, "I can't afford to let grass grow under my feet. This young ass here might snap her up, and Mrs. Krill would only be too glad to secure a title for Maud." "I say," said Lord George suddenly, and waking from a brown study, "who is Mrs. Krill? I've heard the name."
Amongst other things that Grexon Hay had been engaged to your daughter for two years." "Well?" asked Mrs. Krill, coolly, "what of that?" "Nothing particular," rejoined Hurd, just as coolly, "only I wonder you took the trouble to pretend that you met Hay at Pash's office for the first time." "That was some romantic rubbish of my daughter's.
"I shall dispute the will if it is not in my favor. I am the widow of this man and I claim full justice. Besides," she went on, wetting her full lips with her tongue, "I understood from the newspapers that the money was left to Mr. Krill's daughter." "Certainly. To Sylvia Krill." "Norman, sir. She has no right to any other name. But I really do not see why I should explain myself to you, sir.
Meanwhile Pash worked to prove the will, pay the death-duties, and to place Sylvia in full possession of her property. He found in one of the safes the certificate of the girl's birth, and also the marriage certificate of Aaron Norman in the name of Lemuel Krill. The man evidently had his doubts of the marriage being a legal one if contracted under his alias.
"Oh, Paul, do you think she knows anything about the murder?" "No, dear. I don't think that. Mrs. Krill is far too clever a woman to put her neck in danger. But there may be a chance of her daughter losing the money. Sylvia," he asked, "you saw Maud Krill. How old would you take her to be?" "Oh, quite old, Paul," said Sylvia, decisively; "she dresses well and paints her face; but she's forty."
Krill, wondering what she would say, and wondering also how it was that Lord George did not know she was the widow of the murdered Lemuel Krill, whose name had been so widely advertised. But Hay spoke before anyone could make a remark. "What an unpleasant subject," he said, with a pretended shudder, "let us talk of less melodramatic things." "Oh, why," said Mrs. Krill, using her fan.
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