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"Oh, no, you couldn't. Mother will intercept all letters." "Upon my word " began Mallow angrily, then stopped. It was useless to show his wrath before this silly boy, who could do no good and might do a deal of harm. "Very well, then," he said more mildly, "ask Juliet to meet me on the other side of Rexton, under the wall which runs round the unfinished house." Basil started.
"Father was working at some house in these parts " "What! Down here?" "Yes, at Rexton, which was then just rising into notice as a place for gentlefolks. He had just finished with a house when he came home one day with his wages. He was taken ill and died. The doctor said he had taken poison, and he died of it. Arsenic it was," explained Susan to her horrified audience.
I expect the excitement made me unnaturally strong. I suffered greatly when it was over." "You were a wreck," said the physician bluntly. "When what was over?" asked Mallow, anxiously. "The event of the night to which I am coming. It took me some time to get to Rexton, and a long time to walk to the unfinished house. I did not go down Crooked Lane, but round by the wall."
Where was the man arrested?" "At a place near Rexton. He was trying to get a drink and gave a shilling it was false. The inspector will show it to you, sir. And another queer thing, Mr. Jennings, this man had some rags and a bottle of petroleum on him." "Humph! Perhaps he intended to set fire to some place. Have you heard of any fire?" "No, sir, not near Rexton."
Rexton and its quiet round of parish duties seemed thousands of miles away from Alan, and he wondered a little if this were not all a dream. When he went away the Captain invited him back. "If you like to come, that is," he said brusquely, "and always as the man, not the priest, remember. I don't want you by and by to be slyly slipping in the thin end of any professional wedges.
It is not likely that after paying so terrible a price, such destruction would be agreed upon. Certainly the factory may be removed to another place. Humph! I wonder if I can trace it. The best thing for me to do will be to go to Rexton and look at the ruins." So to Rexton the detective went, and found a large crowd round the wall of the park.
"Be quick there," said the strangers, "for we have but a short time to rest, and we must speedily be again on our road." "What shall I do, Master David?" said Jose. "If we do not let them in they will batter down the door; but still I do not like to disturb the Senor Rexton. They do not look like robbers, so it is all right."
Juliet thought I was the man. I did not say no. But the moment she mentioned the coat I knew it was you. You borrowed the coat from me, and returned it the other day. Now then " "Stop! stop!" cried Basil, rising with pale lips and shaking hands, "I admit that I went to Rexton on that night, but I swear I am innocent." "Pah!" cried Mallow, thinking this was another lie, and a weak one too.
As it was, she threw over her American and dedicated herself to a hermit's life at Rexton." "You never saw her again?" "Never. I started to travel, and came to London only at rare intervals. I did write to Selina, asking her to see me, but she always refused, so I became philosophic and took to celibacy also."
I am not fit to be your wife." "Don't talk nonsense, dear," he smiled. "It isn't nonsense. You are a minister and it would ruin you to marry a girl like me. Think what the Rexton people would say of it." "Rexton isn't the world, dearest. Last week I had a letter from home asking me to go to a church there.
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