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99 - Mysteries of London Vol II by George W M Reynolds · Mysteries of London Vol. II

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  Speaker 1: A midnight scene of mystery. Well, said Quenton to his
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  Speaker 1: fellow domestics, as they were sitting at breakfast in the
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  Speaker 1: servants hall. The honorable mister Vernon is by no means
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  Speaker 1: the most agreeable gentleman that ever set foot in his house.
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  Speaker 1: But his valet beats anything I ever saw in the
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  Speaker 1: same shape. Did you ever see such a countenance? Exclaimed
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  Speaker 1: one of the maids. I am sure it was not
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  Speaker 1: for his good looks that mister Vernon could have chosen him.
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  Speaker 1: He is just the kind of person that I should
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  Speaker 1: not like to meet in a lane in a dark night,
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  Speaker 1: observed another member of the female branch of dependents. He
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  Speaker 1: certainly cannot help his looks, said Quenton, But heaven knows
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  Speaker 1: they tell amazingly against him, and what I think somewhat extraordinary,
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  Speaker 1: remarked the butler is just how now. I found him
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  Speaker 1: in my pantry, balancing the silver spoons at the end
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  Speaker 1: of his finger, as if to tell the weight of them.
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  Speaker 1: So I quietly informed him that my pantry was safe,
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  Speaker 1: and he took himself off with a very ill grace.
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  Speaker 1: Did you notice him last night after supper? Said the
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  Speaker 1: first maid, who had spoken. When we got talking about
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  Speaker 1: the disappearance of Lydia Hutchinson with my lady's casket of jewels.
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  Speaker 1: How eagerly he joined in the conversation, and how many
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  Speaker 1: questions he asked, yes to be sure I did returned
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  Speaker 1: another female servant. He was as curious about the matter
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  Speaker 1: as if Lydia was his own sister, or daughter or sweetheart.
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  Speaker 1: He wanted to learn how long ago it happened, how
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  Speaker 1: we knew that she had run away with the casket,
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  Speaker 1: and all about it. And then when we told him
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  Speaker 1: what we thought of the matter, he cross questioned us
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  Speaker 1: as if he was a counsel and we were witnesses
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  Speaker 1: at a trial. But I wonder who this widow is
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  Speaker 1: that came last night and seemed so intimate with my lady.
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  Speaker 1: She's a very genteel person, said Quinton, and seems to
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  Speaker 1: know how to treat servants as if she had a
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  Speaker 1: great many her own. You can always tell the true
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  Speaker 1: breed of people by the way they behave to servants.
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  Speaker 1: I'm decidedly of your opinion, mister Quenton. Observed a footman,
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  Speaker 1: a true gentleman, or a true lady always says thank
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  Speaker 1: you when you hand them anything at table and so on.
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  Speaker 1: But it seems that my lady is very unwell this morning,
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  Speaker 1: for she and her new friend had their breakfast in
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  Speaker 1: my lady's own chamber, and the nurse and child are
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  Speaker 1: to remain altogether in my lady's private suite of apartments,
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  Speaker 1: added one of the females. Does anyone know the name
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  Speaker 1: of my lady's friend, missus Beaufort, I think the lady's maid, said,
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  Speaker 1: replied Quenton. But here comes James White. And James White
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  Speaker 1: did accordingly enter the servants hall at that moment in
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  Speaker 1: the person of the resurrection Man, for by the former
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  Speaker 1: name he was now pleased to pass at Ravensworth Hall.
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  Speaker 1: Been taking a walk, mister White, said Quenton, as Dickins
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  Speaker 1: seated himself at the breakfast table. Yes, just looking about
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  Speaker 1: the grounds a little, was the answer. Handsome building, this
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  Speaker 1: fine park, beautiful gardens. It is a handsome building, mister White,
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  Speaker 1: said Quenton. And as commodious as it is handsome, very commodious,
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  Speaker 1: returned the Resurrection Man. Nice snug little private door too
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  Speaker 1: at the southern end, he added, with a strange leer.
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  Speaker 1: Why that was the very door that Lydia Hutchinson decamped
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  Speaker 1: by when she ran off with my lady's jewels, exclaimed
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  Speaker 1: one of the maids. Ah indeed, said the resurrection man carelessly.
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  Speaker 1: And wasn't her ladyship cut up at the loss of
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  Speaker 1: the jewels? Somewhat? So, was the female servant's answer. But
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  Speaker 1: my lady's too rich to care very much about that.
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  Speaker 1: And was there no blue but police case I mean
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  Speaker 1: made of it, asked Tigkins. None, replied the maid. My
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  Speaker 1: lady possesses too good a heart to wish to punish
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  Speaker 1: even those who most wrong her. A very excellent trait
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  Speaker 1: in her character, observed the resurrection man as he deliberately
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  Speaker 1: made terrific inroads upon the bread and butter and cold meat.
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  Speaker 1: Was her ladyship at the hall when that young woman
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  Speaker 1: bolted No, she had gone to London early in the
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  Speaker 1: morning of the very same day. But there's my lady's bell.
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  Speaker 1: And the female servant, who had been thus conversing with
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  Speaker 1: the resurrection man, hastened to answer the summons. In a
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  Speaker 1: few minutes she returned, saying, mister Quenton, you are wanted
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  Speaker 1: in the little parlor opposite my lady's room. The valet
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  Speaker 1: repaired to the apartment named where Eliza Sidney was waiting
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  Speaker 1: for him, motioning him to close the door, she said,
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  Speaker 1: in a low but earnest tone, Lady Ravensworth informs me
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  Speaker 1: that you were devoted to your late master. Doubtless you
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  Speaker 1: are equally well disposed towards his unprotected and almost friendless wife.
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  Speaker 1: If there is any way, Madam, in which my fidelity
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  Speaker 1: can be put to the test, I shall be well pleased,
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  Speaker 1: was the reply. In a word. Then continued Eliza, your
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  Speaker 1: mistress and the infant air are in danger, and it
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  Speaker 1: behooves you to aid me in defeating the machinations of
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  Speaker 1: their enemies. After what I have now said, are your
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  Speaker 1: suspicions in no way excited? I confess, Madam, answered Quenton,
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  Speaker 1: that the presence of a certain person in this house
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  Speaker 1: you allude to the honorable mister Vernon, exclaimed Eliza, and
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  Speaker 1: you are right. He has domiciled himself here without invitation,
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  Speaker 1: without apparent motive, and he is attended by an individual
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  Speaker 1: capable of any atrocity. Mister Vernon's valet, said Quenton interrogatively.
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  Speaker 1: The same was the reply. But I dare not explain
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  Speaker 1: myself more fully at present. What I now require of
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  Speaker 1: you is to watch all the proceedings of mister Vernon
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  Speaker 1: and his attendant, and report to me whatever you may
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  Speaker 1: think worthy of observation. I will not fail to do so, madam,
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  Speaker 1: returned Quenton. And now I have to request you to
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  Speaker 1: give me a small portion of the tobacco which the
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  Speaker 1: late Lord Ravensworth was accustomed to use, continued Eliza. And
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  Speaker 1: the remainder you must carefully conceal in some secure place,
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  Speaker 1: as it may some day be required for inspection. Elsewhere
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  Speaker 1: your direction shall all be implicitly attended to, said Quenton.
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  Speaker 1: But might I be permitted to ask whether you are aware, Madam,
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  Speaker 1: that the tobacco was sent to Lord Ravensworth by mister Vernon.
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  Speaker 1: It is my knowledge of that fact which induced me
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  Speaker 1: to give those instructions concerning the weed, the fatal weed,
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  Speaker 1: replied Eliza significantly. Ah Madam, I also have had my
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  Speaker 1: suspicions on that head, exclaimed Quenton, who perfectly understood the
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  Speaker 1: lady's meaning. I hinted those suspicions to the medical gentleman
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  Speaker 1: who attended my lord in his last moments, and he
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  Speaker 1: had the tobacco analyzed by a skillful chemist. But the
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  Speaker 1: result did not turn out as I had expected. Lady
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  Speaker 1: Ravensworth has already mentioned this fact to me, said Eliza,
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  Speaker 1: I have, however, conceived a means of submitting the weed
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  Speaker 1: to a better test. But of this and other subjects,
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  Speaker 1: I will speak to you more fully Hereafter Quenton withdrew
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  Speaker 1: to fetch a small sample of the tobacco, with which
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  Speaker 1: he shortly reappeared. Eliza renewed her injunctions to watch the
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  Speaker 1: movements of Vernon and his valet, and then hastened to
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  Speaker 1: rejoin Lady Ravensworth's. The day passed without the occurrence of
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  Speaker 1: anything worth relating, but in the evening one or two
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  Speaker 1: little circumstances in the conduct of mister Vernon's valet struck
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  Speaker 1: the now watchful Quenton as being somewhat peculiar. In the
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  Speaker 1: first place, Tikins sought an excuse to lounge into the
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  Speaker 1: kitchen at a moment when the servants belonging to that
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  Speaker 1: department of the household were temporarily absent, and Quenton, who
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  Speaker 1: followed him unperceived, was not a little astonished when he
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  Speaker 1: saw the resurrection man hastily conceal three large meat hooks
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  Speaker 1: about his person. There were some silver forks and spoons
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  Speaker 1: lying on the table, but these Titkins did not touch.
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  Speaker 1: It was consequently apparent to Quentin that mister Vernon's valet
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  Speaker 1: did not self appropriate the meat hooks for the sake
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  Speaker 1: of their paltry value. It was clear that he required
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  Speaker 1: them for some particular purpose. What in the name of
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  Speaker 1: common sense can he possibly want with meat hooks? Was
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  Speaker 1: the question which the astonished Quentin put to himself. Conjecture
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  Speaker 1: was vain, but the incident determined him to continue to
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  Speaker 1: watch mister Vernon's valet very closely. When the hour for
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  Speaker 1: retiring to rest arrived, a female servant offered Titkins a
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  Speaker 1: chamber candlestick, but he requested to be provided with lantern, saying,
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  Speaker 1: with a carelessness which Quentum perceived to be affected. The
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  Speaker 1: truth is I am fond of reading in bed, and
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  Speaker 1: as a candle is dangerous, I prefer a lantern. Quentin
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  Speaker 1: alone suspected the truth of this statement. He, however, said nothing.
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  Speaker 1: The lantern was given to Titkins, and the servants separated
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  Speaker 1: for the night. It so happened that the bedroom allotted
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  Speaker 1: to the resurrection man was in the same passage as
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  Speaker 1: that tenanted by Quentin. Suspecting that Titkins required the lantern
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  Speaker 1: for some purpose to be executed. That night, Quentin crept
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  Speaker 1: along the passage and peeped through the keyhole of the
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  Speaker 1: other's chamber. He was enabled to command a good view
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  Speaker 1: of the interior of that room, the key not being
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  Speaker 1: in the lock, and he beheld Titkins busily engaged in
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  Speaker 1: fastening the meat hooks to a stout stick about a
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  Speaker 1: foot and a half long. The resurrection man next time
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  Speaker 1: took the cord which had secured his trunk, and tied
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  Speaker 1: one end round the middle of the stick, then wound
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  Speaker 1: the cord round the stick, apparently to render this singular
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  Speaker 1: apparatus more conveniently portable. This being done, Titkins put off
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  Speaker 1: his suit of brand new black and dressed himself in
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  Speaker 1: a more common garb, which he took from his trunk.
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  Speaker 1: When he had thus changed his clothes, he secured the
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  Speaker 1: stick with the cord and meat hooks about his person.
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  Speaker 1: This is most extraordinary, thought Quenton to himself. He is
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  Speaker 1: evidently going out, But what is he about to do?
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  Speaker 1: What can all this mean? The valid's bewilderment was increased
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  Speaker 1: when he beheld the resurrection man take a pair of
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  Speaker 1: pistols from his trunk, deliberately charged them with powder and ball,
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  Speaker 1: and then consigned them to his pocket. What can he mean?
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  Speaker 1: Was the question, which Quenton repeated to himself a dozen
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  Speaker 1: times in a minute. The bell on the roof of
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  Speaker 1: the mansion now proclaimed the hour of midnight, and Tikins,
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  Speaker 1: having suddenly extinguished the candle in the lantern, made a
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  Speaker 1: motion as if he were about to leave the room.
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  Speaker 1: Quenton accordingly retreated a few yards up the passage, which
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  Speaker 1: was quite dark. Almost immediately afterwards he heard the door
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  Speaker 1: of Tickins's room open cautiously. Then it was closed again,
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  Speaker 1: and the sharp click of a key turning in a
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  Speaker 1: lock followed. Tickens was now stealing noiselessly down the passage,
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  Speaker 1: little suspecting that any one was occupied in dogging him.
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  Speaker 1: He descended the stairs, gained the servants offices, and passed
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  Speaker 1: out of the mansion by a back door. But Quenton
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  Speaker 1: was on his trap. The night was almost as dark
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  Speaker 1: as pitch, and the valet had the greatest difficulty in
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  Speaker 1: following the steps of the resurrection man without approaching him
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  Speaker 1: so closely as to risk the chance of being overheard.
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  Speaker 1: From time to time, Tickins stopped, evidently to listen, and
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  Speaker 1: then Quenton stood perfectly still. Also so cautious, indeed was
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  Speaker 1: the latter in his task of dogging the resurrection man,
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  Speaker 1: that this individual, keen as were his ears and piercing
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  Speaker 1: his eyes, neither heard nor saw anything to excite a
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  Speaker 1: suspicion that he was watched by degrees black as was
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  Speaker 1: the night, Quentin's eyes became accustomed to that almost profound obscurity,
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  Speaker 1: and by the time the resurrection man had traversed the
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  Speaker 1: gardens and clambered over the railings which separated those grounds
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  Speaker 1: from the open fields, the Valet could distinguish, only just distinguish,
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  Speaker 1: a dark form moving forward before him. If I can
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  Speaker 1: thus obtain a glimpse of him, thought Quentin, he can,
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  Speaker 1: in the same manner catch sight of me the first
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  Speaker 1: time he turns round. And the Valet was accordingly compelled
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  Speaker 1: to slacken his pace until he could no longer distinguish
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  Speaker 1: the form of him whom he was pursuing. But as
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  Speaker 1: the resurrection man, deeming himself quite secure, did not take
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  Speaker 1: the trouble to walk lightly along the hard path which
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  Speaker 1: ran through the fields, Quentum was now enabled to follow
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  Speaker 1: without difficulty the sounds of his footsteps. All of a
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  Speaker 1: sudden these sounds ceased, and Quentin stopped short. In another minute, however,
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  Speaker 1: he heard the low, rustling tread of feet walking rapidly
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  Speaker 1: over the grass, and thus he recovered the trail which
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  Speaker 1: was so abruptly interrupted. The resurrection man had turned out
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  Speaker 1: of the beaten path and was pursuing his way diagonally
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  Speaker 1: across the field. Quentum followed him with the utmost caution,
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  Speaker 1: and in a few moments there was a bright flash
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  Speaker 1: in the corner of the field, the cause of which
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  Speaker 1: the valet was at no loss to comprehend. Tickins had
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  Speaker 1: lighted a lucifer match, doubtless to assure himself that he
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  Speaker 1: was in the particular spot which he sought. Quentin, to
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  Speaker 1: whom every square yard of the estate was well known,
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  Speaker 1: immediately remembered that there was a pond in the corner
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  Speaker 1: of the field where Tikins had thus stopped, and close
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  Speaker 1: by was a thick hedge. The valet accordingly made a
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  Speaker 1: short and rapid circuit in order to gain the style,
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  Speaker 1: leading into the adjacent field. Then creeping carefully along the bushes,
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  Speaker 1: he arrived in a few moments behind that precise portion
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  Speaker 1: of the hedge which overlooked the pond. The night was
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  Speaker 1: so dark that he could not follow with his eyes
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  Speaker 1: the exact movements of the resurrection Man. He was, however,
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  Speaker 1: enabled to distinguish his form on the opposite bank of
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  Speaker 1: the pond, And not many moments after he had taken
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  Speaker 1: his post behind the hedge, there was a sudden splash
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  Speaker 1: in the water, as of some object thrown into it.
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  Speaker 1: Then the Resurrection Man moved slowly along the bank, and
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  Speaker 1: it instantly struck Quentin the he was dragging the pond.
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  Speaker 1: This idea explained the purpose of the apparatus formed by
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  Speaker 1: the hooks, the stout stick and the cord. But for
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  Speaker 1: what could he be dragging? The valet shuddered as this
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  Speaker 1: question occurred to him. For the nature of the apparatus,
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  Speaker 1: the secrecy of the whole proceeding, and the bad opinion
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  Speaker 1: which Eliza Sidney's hints had induced him to form him
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  Speaker 1: whom he however, only knew as James White. These circumstances
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  Speaker 1: combined to fill Quenton's mind with a terrible suspicion that
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  Speaker 1: Tikins was dragging for a dead body. The Resurrection Man
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  Speaker 1: drew up his drag with a terrible oath, uttered aloud
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  Speaker 1: and expressive of disappointment. And yet this must be the spot,
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  Speaker 1: he added, as he disentangled the hooks from the cord.
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  Speaker 1: I went over the whole grounds this morning, and I
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  Speaker 1: could swear that it was here that the conclusion of
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  Speaker 1: the sentence was muttered to himself, and therefore remained unheard
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  Speaker 1: by the valet. The drag was thrown into the water
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  Speaker 1: a second time, and at the expiration of a few moments,
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  Speaker 1: tick Kins gave utterance to an exclamation expressive of satisfaction.
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  Speaker 1: Then he retreated slowly from the edge of the pond,
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  Speaker 1: as if dragging a heavy object out of the water
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  Speaker 1: from behind the hedge. Quentin strained his eyes with mingled
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  Speaker 1: feelings of curiosity and terror, to scrutinize as narrowly as
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  Speaker 1: possible the real meaning of this strange and mysterious proceeding
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  Speaker 1: At length, there was a strong gurgling of the water,
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  Speaker 1: and in another moment, a large, dark object was moving
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  Speaker 1: slowly and heavily up the steep bank. A cold shudder
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  Speaker 1: crept over the valet's frame. For that object bore the
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  Speaker 1: appearance of a corpse. He would have taken to flight,
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  Speaker 1: he would have escaped from the contemplation of such a
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  Speaker 1: strange and appalling scene. He would have hastened back to
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  Speaker 1: the man to raise an alarm, but vague fears, ineffable
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  Speaker 1: horror bound him, as it were, to the spot, paralyzed
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  Speaker 1: his limbs and compelled him to remain a spectator of
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  Speaker 1: the dark. Proceeding the object was safely landed upon the bank,
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  Speaker 1: there was a sharp crack as of a match. A
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  Speaker 1: small blue flame suddenly appeared, and then Tikins lighted the
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  Speaker 1: candle in his lantern. This being done, he approached the
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  Speaker 1: object upon the bank, and in another moment, all Quentin's
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  Speaker 1: doubts were cleared up, for the light of the lantern
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  Speaker 1: now fell upon the body of a female. He closed
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  Speaker 1: his eyes instinctively, and his brain was seized with a
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  Speaker 1: sudden dizziness. But mastering his feelings, he again looked towards
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  Speaker 1: the mysterious and fearful drama which was being enacted on
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  Speaker 1: the opposite bank of the pond. The light was again extinguished,
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  Speaker 1: and Tikins was stooping over the corpse. Suddenly an exclamation
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  Speaker 1: of joy escaped his lips, but Quentin was unable to
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  Speaker 1: divine the cause. Another minute elapsed, and the resurrection Man
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  Speaker 1: rolled the body back again into the water. There was
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  Speaker 1: a second splash a moment afterwards. It was evidently the
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  Speaker 1: drag which Tickins had thrown away, its services being no
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  Speaker 1: longer required by him. Then he retreated with rapid step
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  Speaker 1: from the bank of the pond, and Quenton, scarcely able
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  Speaker 1: to subdue the terror which had taken possession of him,
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  Speaker 1: retraced his way along the hedge, determined in spite of
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  Speaker 1: his feelings, to watch the resurrection man to the end,
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  Speaker 1: if more there were of this strange midnight drama yet
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  Speaker 1: to come. Having hastily performed the short circuit that was
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  Speaker 1: necessary to bring him back into the field through which
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  Speaker 1: Tikins was now proceeding, Quentin shortly came within sight of
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  Speaker 1: that individual's stark form, moving rapidly along the beaten path.
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  Speaker 1: Near the railings which bounded the gardens. There were several
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  Speaker 1: groups of life, and at the foot of one of them,
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  Speaker 1: Tikins halted, stooping down. He appeared to be busily employed
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  Speaker 1: for some minutes in digging up the earth. Quentin approached
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  Speaker 1: as nearly as he could without incurring the risk of discovery,
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  Speaker 1: and the motions of the resurrection man convinced him that
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  Speaker 1: he was indeed engaged in burying something at the foot
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  Speaker 1: of the tree. This task being accomplished, Tigkins clambered over
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  Speaker 1: the palings and pursued his way through the gardens towards
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  Speaker 1: the back gate of the hall. Quentin remained behind, his
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  Speaker 1: first impulse being to examine the spot where the resurrection
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  Speaker 1: man had been digging, But a second thought made him hesitate,
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  Speaker 1: and after a few moments reflection, he determined to wait
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  Speaker 1: until he had reported the whole of this night's mysterious
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  Speaker 1: proceedings to the lady, whom he only knew as Missus Beaufort,
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  Speaker 1: and at whose instance he had been induced to watch
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  Speaker 1: the proceedings of mister Vernon's Valet. Addingly pursued his way
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  Speaker 1: back to the mansion, but as the resurrection man had
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  Speaker 1: bolted the back door inside, Gwentum was compelled to gain
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  Speaker 1: an entry through one of the windows of the servant's offices.
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  Speaker 1: This he affected with safety, and noiselessly returned to his
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  Speaker 1: own chamber. But he closed not his eyes in slumber
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  Speaker 1: throughout the remainder of that night, For all he had seen,
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  Speaker 1: haunted his imagination like a specter. End of Section ninety nine.