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'Outside, replied Riderhood, always beating it out, with his head determinedly set askew, and his eyes watchfully dividing their attention between his two auditors, 'outside the door of the Six Jolly Fellowships, towards a quarter after twelve o'clock at midnight but I will not in my conscience undertake to swear to so fine a matter as five minutes on the night when he picked up the body.
The thunder rolled heavily, and the forked lightning seemed to make jagged rents in every part of the vast curtain without, as Riderhood sat by the window, glancing at the bed. Sometimes, he saw the man upon the bed, by a red light; sometimes, by a blue; sometimes, he scarcely saw him in the darkness of the storm; sometimes he saw nothing of him in the blinding glare of palpitating white fire.
As he sat at his platter and mug, Riderhood saw him, again and yet again, steal a look at the neckerchief, as if he were correcting his slow observation and prompting his sluggish memory. 'When you're ready for your snooze, said that honest creature, 'chuck yourself on my bed in the corner, T'otherest. It'll be broad day afore three. I'll call you early.
'You are right. He wore it the last time you ever saw him, and the last time you ever will see him in this world. 'It's my belief you mean to tell me to my face you killed him! exclaimed Riderhood; but, nevertheless, allowing his glass to be filled again. The man only answered with another shrug, and showed no symptom of confusion.
And yet, repeat the word inwardly as often as she would, the attempt to reason out and prove that she was sure, always came after it and failed. Riderhood had done the deed, and entrapped her father. Riderhood had not done the deed, but had resolved in his malice to turn against her father, the appearances that were ready to his hand to distort.
'I am as sure here, said Bradley, with a clutch at the breast of his coarse shirt, 'as if it was written there; with a blow or a stab at the sky. 'Ah! But judging from the looks on you, retorted Riderhood, completely ridding himself of his grass, and drawing his sleeve across his mouth, 'you've made ekally sure afore, and have got disapinted. It has told upon you.
'Seas, rivers, lakes, and ponds, said Riderhood. 'They've got all the lot, Master! Blowed if I shouldn't have left out lakes, never having clapped eyes upon one, to my knowledge. Seas, rivers, lakes, and ponds. Wot is it, lambs, as they ketches in seas, rivers, lakes, and ponds? 'Good a-gin! said Riderhood. 'But wot else is it, my lambs, as they sometimes ketches in rivers? Chorus at a loss.
And many and many times afterwards, when such great pains were taken to come to the bottom of the crime, and it never could be come near, I thought in my own thoughts, could Riderhood himself have done the murder, and did he purposely let father find the body?
Even then, it was only to ask: 'Where is your Lock? 'Twenty mile and odd call it five-and-twenty mile and odd, if you like up stream, was the sullen reply. 'How is it called? 'Plashwater Weir Mill Lock. 'Suppose I was to offer you five shillings; what then? 'Why, then, I'd take it, said Mr Riderhood.
My private affairs is to get appinted to the Lock as reg'lar keeper at fust hand, and to have the law of a busted B'low-Bridge steamer which drownded of me. I ain't a goin' to be drownded and not paid for it! Bradley looked at him, as though he were claiming to be a Ghost. 'The steamer, said Mr Riderhood, obstinately, 'run me down and drownded of me.
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