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With e Barnwell, I was at first disposed to believe

that I must have had some hand in the attack upon my sister, or at

all events that as her near relation, popularly known to be under

obligations to her, I was a itimate object of suspicion than

any one else But when, in the clearer light of next an to

reconsider the matter and to hear it discussed around me on all sides, I

took another view of the case, which was e his pipe, from a

quarter after eight o'clock to a quarter before ten While he was there,

at the kitchen door, and had exchanged

Good Night with a far home The man could not be ot into dense

confusion when he tried to be), than that it must have been before nine

When Joe went home at five minutes before ten, he found her struck down

on the floor, and promptly called in assistance The fire had not then

burnt unusually low, nor was the snuff of the candle very long; the

candle, however, had been blown out

Nothing had been taken away fro out of the candle,--which stood on a table between the door