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"Mistaken? No! master, I know Harborough's voice, and his figure, aye, and his step as well as I know my own fireside," declared Mrs. Hamthwaite. "Of course I know it were Harborough no doubt on't!" "How are you sure that this was the evening of the murder?" asked Brereton. "Can you prove that it was?" "Easy!" said Mrs. Hamthwaite.
What we want to know, in order to fully establish Harborough's innocence is where was he, what was he doing, from the moment he left his cottage last night until say a quarter past nine, the latest moment at which, according to what the doctor said, the murder could have been committed?" "Off on one of his poaching expeditions, I suppose," said Bent.
Then, get all your own men out now! and keep folk off the paths in that wood, and put a watch on Harborough's house, in case he should put a bold face on it and come back he's impudence enough and of course, if he comes, they'll take him. Get to all that now at once!" "You think it's Harborough, then?" said the superintendent.
Shoved away in a rat-hole in the thatch of Harborough's shed these were, sir upon my honour, I don't know what to make of it! You'd have thought that a man of Harborough's sense and cleverness would never have put these things there, where they were certain to be found." "I don't believe Harborough did put them there," said Brereton. "But what are they?"
All the same, Brereton had a strong notion that neither Mr. nor Mrs. Bent would ever revisit Highmarket. As for himself, his thoughts went beyond Highmarket to the place amongst the hills which he had never seen. After Harborough's due acquittal Brereton, having discharged his task, had gone back to London.
In his absence our friend here was born and at the same time, sad to say, his mother died. The child was brought up by Harborough's mother Mr. Wraythwaite and Harborough are foster-brothers. It remained in the care of Harborough's mother who kept the secret of the marriage until it was seven years old. Then, opportunity occurring, it was taken to its father in Australia.
No matter how much he believed in Harborough's innocence, Harborough was the man to go for at present. Attention must be concentrated on him, and on him only. Anything anything, at whatever cost of morals and honesty to divert suspicion from that fool of a Cotherstone! if it were not already too late.
If he had consulted me," continued Carfax, with a knowing wink at Brereton, "we should have put him right in a few hours. But he kept off lawyers and he sought out the only man he could remember his foster-brother, Harborough. And by Harborough's advice, they met secretly.
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