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This, then, is life, not as I imagined it, but as it is, and such creatures as Hutchings are human beings. Well, after all, it is better to know the truth than to cheat oneself with a mirage. I shall appreciate large natures with noble and generous impulses better, now that I know how rare they are." In his room he found May awaiting him.
Flexen had supposed that he would remain silent for a fortnight, he had overestimated both his modesty and his reticence. Later in the day the village was further upset by the behaviour of James Hutchings himself.
"By the way," said Mr. Manley, with some hesitation, "there's another anonymous letter." "Why didn't you burn it? I told you to burn 'em all," snapped his employer. "This one is not about you. It's about Hutchings," said Mr. Manley in an explanatory tone. "Hutchings? What about Hutchings?" "You'd better read it," said Mr. Manley, handing him the letter. "It seems to be from some spiteful woman."
Liedig, the hotel keeper of Yosemite, is the poet and Christian, and that J.M. Hutchings aforesaid is a nobody, a blower, a dead beat, the chief impediment to the interests of Yosemite or, to use a generic term, a scalawag. The fact is that no one can afford in California to take the same route twice, for each one has a glory of its own.
As he came to the bottom of the stairs the door at the back of the hall opened; James Hutchings came through the doorway and shut the door quietly behind him. Mr. Manley stood still. James Hutchings came very quietly down the hall, saw him, and started. "Good evening, Hutchings. I thought you'd left us," said Mr. Manley, in a rather unpleasant tone.
He did not believe that James Hutchings had returned; he thought it improbable that the mysterious woman had returned. Even more important was the fact that this admission of Colonel Grey assured him that neither he nor Lady Loudwater had committed the murder. Grey had evidently lied to shield her. He had no less evidently learned that she did not need shielding.
After they had talked of the usual topics for a while, he said: "By the way, Manley, did you hear Lord Loudwater snore after Hutchings went into the library, or before?" "So you know that I saw Hutchings in the hall that night?" said Mr. Manley. "It's wonderful how you find things out. I didn't tell you, and I should have thought that I was the only person awake in the front part of the Castle.
The air and exercise invigorated him; the peace and solitude of the prairie, the beauty of earth and sky, the unconsciousness of nature consoled him, reduced his troubles to relative unimportance, and allowed him to regain his equanimity. Even his ideas in regard to Hutchings underwent a change.
In April, 1859, he moved into it, located a garden opposite the Half Dome, set out a lot of apple, pear and peach trees, planted potatoes, etc., that he had packed in on a "contrary old mule," and worked for his board in building a hotel which was afterwards purchased by Mr. Hutchings.
"Well, I must be getting on; let me give you a lift as far as Loudwater." Grey thanked him and stepped into the car. When he had set him down, Mr. Flexen drove on in frowning thought. Colonel Grey was speaking the truth, and in that case neither James Hutchings nor the mysterious woman had committed the murder, unless they had deliberately returned for the purpose.
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