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Updated: June 13, 2025
Mr Pendle comes often to see my mother. 'Is he here now? asked Cargrim, noticing the hesitancy at the end of her sentence; 'because I wish to speak with him on business. 'He is upstairs. I daresay he'll be down soon. 'Oh, don't disturb him for my sake, I beg. But if you will permit me I shall go up and see Mrs Mosk.
Mrs Pansey grunted. Bold as she was she did not like to speak quite plainly to the woman, as too free speech might inculpate Gabriel and bring the bishop to the rescue. Besides, Mrs Pansey had no evidence to bring forward to prove that Gabriel was in love with Bell Mosk. Therefore she said nothing, but, like the mariner's parrot, thought the more.
Thank you, father! And the curate, not trusting himself to speak further, lest he should break down altogether, left the room hurriedly. With a weary sigh Dr Pendle sank into his seat, and pressed his hand to his aching head. He was greatly relieved to know that his secret was safe with Mosk; but his troubles were not yet at an end.
He wasn't the kind of man I fancied, but there's no denying he was attractive in his own wicked way. 'Ah! said a dirty-looking man, who was more than suspected of being a welcher, 'couldn't he tell slap-up yarns about H'injins an' 'eathens as bows down to stocks and stones. Oh, no! not he 'He could lie like a one-year-old, if that's what y' mean, said Mosk.
'What do you mean by talking like that? said the bishop, sternly. 'Have the advantage now indeed; I never lost the advantage, sir, so far as you are concerned. I did not murder that wretched man, for you know that Mosk confessed how he shot him for the sake of the money I gave him. I knew of Jentham in other days, under another name, and when he asked me for money I gave it to him.
'My love, how was I to know your aunt took an interest in the man? 'I don't take an interest in him, protested Miss Whichello, faintly; 'but he killed Jentham, and now he kills himself; it's horrible. 'Horrible, but necessary, assented George, cheerfully; 'a man who murders another can't expect to get off scot-free. Mosk has only done for himself what the law would have done for him.
I had no proof of your guilt, although I suspected you for a long time; but it was the pistol which Mother Jael picked up that put me on the right track. 'Ah, wos it now? said Mosk, with regret. 'Th' 'oss knocked that out of m' 'and when I wos tyin' him up, and I 'adn't no time to look for it in the mud an' dark. Y' wouldn't hev caught me, I s'pose, if it hadn't bin for that bloomin' pistol?
'I think, said the bishop, with a glance at Mosk to assure himself that the man was sober 'I think, Miss Mosk, that it is advisable your father and myself should have a few words in private. 'I don't want father to interfere began Bell, when her parent gripped her arm, and cutting her short with a scowl conducted her to the door.
I'll have hundreds of pounds next week hundreds; and he broke out fiercely, 'get me more brandy; don't mind that devil-dodger. 'Go to bed, said Mosk, retiring, 'go to bed. Jentham ran after him with an angry cry, so Cargrim, feeling himself somewhat out of place in this pot-house row, nodded to Mosk and left the hotel with as much dignity as he could muster.
It was with a beating heart that Gabriel was ushered into the prison cell. By special permission the interview was allowed to be private, for Mosk positively refused to speak in the presence of a third person. He was sitting on his bed when the parson entered, but looked up with a gleam of joy in his blood-shot eyes when he was left alone with the young man.
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