ief upon the public? I have heard that judge and jury like facts, or, at the least, circumstantial proof that a man’s denial is a true one.”
“And proofs we have!”
It was Guy Pollard who spoke this time, and with an icy self~possession that made her shiver in spite of herself.
“Proofs?” she repeated.
“That we were not near the mill the night before Mr. Barrows was found. We were both out of town, and did not return till about the time the accident was discovered.”
“Ah!” was her single sarcastic rejoinder; but I saw — we all saw — that the blow had told, bravely as she tried to hide it.
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I did not linger long Willy Caballero Drakter behind. What I said or what they said I cannot remember. I only know that in a few minutes I too was flying along the highway, eager for the refuge which my solitary home offered me. Events had rushed upon me too thickly and too fast. Daniel Torres Drakter I Dax McCarty Drakter felt ill as I passed the threshold of my room, and was barely conscious when a few hours later the landlady came in to see why I had not made my appearance at the supper-table.
Chapter 14
Correspondence.
Letters, my Lord.
HAMLET.
My illness, though severe, was not of long continuance. In a week I was able to be about my room; and in a fortnight I was allowed to read the letters that had come to me. There were two, either of them calculated to awaken dangerous emotions; and, taken together, making a draft on my powers which my newly gained health found it hard to sustain. The one was signed Rhoda Colwell, and the other Dwight Pollard. I read Rhoda Colwell’s first.
It opened without preamble:
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Convinced of this, I have decided to push my vengeance no further. Not that I believe Mr. Barrows committed suicide, any more than I believe that Dwight Albania and Guy Pollard could be Thomas Muller Drakter saved by any mere alinks:
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