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And now came out, into sharp relief, all the stories that had, one way or other, stolen after him into the town. Old Mrs. Pullen fainted when she saw him, and told Doctor Lincote, after, that she thought he was the highwayman who fired the shot that killed the coachman the night they were robbed on Hounslow Heath.
People might wonder how he could have survived a gunshot over the eye; but was not Lincote a doctor and an army doctor to boot when he was young; and who, in Golden Friars, could dispute with him on points of surgery? And I believe the truth is, that this mark had been really made by a pistol bullet. Mr.
Doctor Lincote said: "He must have led a hard life; he had dried in so, and got a good deal of hard muscle; and he rather fancied he had been soldiering he stood like a soldier; and the mark over his right eye looked like a gunshot."
It was the corpse of Toby Crooke! There was a frightful scar across his forehead. The alarm was given. Doctor Lincote, and Mr. Jarlcot, and Turnbull, of the George and Dragon, were on the spot immediately; and many curious and horrified spectators of minor importance. The first thing ascertained was that the man must have been many hours dead.
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