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Cuming Walters quotes me, that "fancy can suggest no reason why Edwin Drood, if he escaped from his wicked uncle, should go spying about instead of coming openly forward. No plausible unfantastic reason could be invented." Later, I shall explain why Edwin, if he is Datchery, might go spying alone. It is also urged that Edwin left Rosa in sorrow, and left blame on Neville Landless. Why do this? Mr.

They learned then that the stagecoach is but a poor, plodding, vulgar thing in the solitudes of the highway; and that the pirate is only a seedy, unfantastic "rough," when he is out of the pictures. Toward evening, the stage-coach came thundering into Hawkeye with a perfectly triumphant ostentation which was natural and proper, for Hawkey a was a pretty large town for interior Missouri.

But, as to my own remark, "why should not Edwin come forward at once, instead of spying about?" Well, if he did, there would be no story. As for "an unfantastic reason" for his conduct, Dickens is not writing an "unfantastic" novel. Moreover, if things occurred as I have suggested, I do not see what evidence Drood had against Jasper.

They learned then that the stagecoach is but a poor, plodding, vulgar thing in the solitudes of the highway; and that the pirate is only a seedy, unfantastic "rough," when he is out of the pictures. Toward evening, the stage-coach came thundering into Hawkeye with a perfectly triumphant ostentation which was natural and proper, for Hawkey a was a pretty large town for interior Missouri.