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Just stopping long enough to have his horse put up at the best hotel and to inquire his way to the prison, he hurried thither. It was nearly nine o'clock, and the street corners were thronged with loungers conversing in low, eager tones upon the present all-absorbing topic of discourse the astounding event of the arrest of the great preacher, the Rev. Thurston Willcoxen, upon the charge of murder.
It was Christmas Eve and a fierce snow-storm was raging. Old Mr. Willcoxen sat half doubled up in his leather-covered elbow chair, in the chimney corner of his bedroom, occupied with smoking his clay pipe, and thinking about his money bags.
She must not be allowed to wander in this way," said the kind girl, with the tears swimming in her eyes. "I shall always be her friend, Marian. She has no others that I know of now; and no relative, except her young cousin, Thurston Willcoxen, who has been abroad at a German University these five years past, and who, in event of Fanny's death, would inherit her property.
Waugh, Miss Thornton and other friends. And after consulting with them upon the proposal that had been made her, she decided to leave Miriam in the joint guardianship of Mrs. Waugh and Thurston Willcoxen. And this decision was made known to Thurston when he called the next morning. A few days after this Edith passed to the world of spirits.
I will not be responsible for a literal report. You are discovered." "What does that mean? If it means you have discovered that I mistook you for Thurston Willcoxen, you ought to 'walk on thrones' the rest of your life! You never got such a compliment before, and never will again!" "Aye! go on, madam! You and your conniving aunt " "Dr.
"My dear Lina, I have the cabalistic words that must draw you forth listen! Our cousin, Thurston Willcoxen, is in prison, charged with the murder of Marian Mayfield" a stifled shriek from Jacquelina "and there is circumstantial evidence against him strong enough to ruin him forever, if it does not cost him his life.
Crowds flocked to hear him, the press spoke highly of his talents and his eloquence, the people warmly echoed the opinion, and Mr. Willcoxen, against his inclination, became the clerical celebrity of the day. But from all this unsought world-worship he turned away a weary, sickened, sorrowing man.
After he was gone Marian chanced to drop a note, which I picked up and read. It was in the handwriting of Thurston Willcoxen, and it appointed a meeting with Marian upon the beach, near Pine Bluff, for that evening." Here Mr. Romford placed in her hands the scrap of paper that had already formed such an important part of the evidence against the prisoner. "Is that the note of which you speak?"
Douglass as groomsman, and Mr. Willcoxen as officiating minister. But it is not with these marriage festivities that we have to do, but with the scenes that immediately succeed them. From the time of Mr. Willcoxen's arrival in the city, he had not ceased to exercise his sacred calling.
Willcoxen had retired to his own apartments and the waiter had replenished the fire and trimmed the lamps and retired, leaving the young couple alone in the parlor Miriam sitting on one side of the circular work-table bending over her sewing, and Paul on the other side with a book in his hand, he suddenly laid the volume down, and went round and drew a chair to Miriam's side and began to tell her how much he loved her, how dear her happiness was to him, and so entreat her to tell him the cause of her evident distress.
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