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Nor from the Winterbournes, nor the Levens. Pleasant! Well, my dear, you must make up your mind to it. I did think I was fool enough to think that when I came back to the old place, my father's old friends would let bygones be bygones. I never did them any harm.
Then the Levens I know the Levens are coming, for Betty told me that she got out of two other engagements as soon as you asked her." "Oh! and, by the way, Mr. Watton Harding Watton," said Mrs. Allison, turning slightly towards Lady Tressady. The exclamation on Lady Maxwell's lips was checked by something she saw on her hostess's face, and Letty eagerly struck in: "Harding coming? my cousin?
"Be you still a-goin' to arrest Abner Levens?" Scattergood asked. "To be sure. He done it, didn't he? Who else would 'a' killed Asa?" "Who else?" said Scattergood, solemnly. They raised Asa Levens and carried him to his house. Having left him in proper custody, the posse re-entered its picnic van and drove with no small trepidation toward Abner Levens's farm, a mile away.
"I knew it was something like this," Mary Ware said, clinging openly and unashamed to Abner Levens. "It's why he couldn't defend himself." Abner nodded. "My flesh and blood was guilty. Could I free myself by accusin' the husband of this woman?... I calc'lated God meant to destroy us Levenses, root and branch.... It was his business, not mine."
Next morning at ten by the clock the coroner with his jury held inquest over the body of Asa Levens, and over that body Jed Briggs and Lindy, his wife, told their story under oath to ears that credited the truth of their words because they knew the man of whom those words were spoken. The jury deliberated briefly.
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