"I can't say I remember much about it, excepting that you did not give me an over-friendly greeting."
"Explain how it happened, Mr. Stanley," said Mr. Reed, "Mr. Wyllys does not understand you."
"I certainly cannot understand what you mean me to believe. You say you were here, and did not receive a very friendly greeting--how was it unfriendly?"
"Why, you showed me the inside of your smoke-house; which, to my notion, wasn't just the right berth for the son of your old friend, and I took the liberty of kicking off the hatches next morning, and making the best of my way out of the neighbourhood."
"You remember the drunken sailor, sir, who was found one night, several years since, near the house," interrupted Harry, who had been listening attentively, and observed Mr. Wyllys's air of incredulity. "I had him locked up in the smoke-house, you may recollect."
"And you must observe, Mr. Hazlehurst, that is a fact which might look ugly before a jury that did not know you," remarked Mr. Clapp; in a sort of half-cunning, half-insinuating manner.
"I do not in the least doubt the ability of many men, sir, to distort actions equally innocent."
"But you acknowledge the fact?"
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tables, and lifting Helen Cumberly, carried her half-way
to Miss C. I was partly disappointed by this answer, and
and when her lips were so compressed into stone. She went
misgivings are partly done away with. I have written also
lamp was incapable of penetrating the fog. He groped with
“I have seriously entered into the enterprise of keeping
“I am driving on with my small matter as well as I can.
throat—her bare clenched fist struck against his red
that belief he had made no effort to find her after his
misgivings are partly done away with. I have written also
reason to believe her dead, and that it was because of
head fomented and cared for by the very Emily herself.