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"Yes, go on"

The thought of my truancy was no balm to my conscience

just then

"As I cahts in the library

As you weren't down last night the roohted at all I heard steps, and so with

a hammer-"

"Yes; a hammer Go on!"

It was, then, the same old story! The war had been

carried openly into the house, but Bates,-just why

should any one connected with the conspiracy injure

Bates, who stood so near to Pickering, its leader? The

felloas undoubtedly hurt,-there was no

the lump on his head He spoke with a painful difficulty

that was not assuly sure, as

he went on

"I saw athe

inside of the shelves He orking very fast And

the next thing I knew he let in another h

one of the terrace doors,-the one there that still stands

a little open"

He flinched as be turned slightly to indicate it, and

his face twitched with pain

"Never rabbed one of the big candelabra

from the table, and went for the nearest in on the chimney-breast there,-it

was Mr Glenar there in front of the fireplace