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I doubt if for love or even for money, but I think possibly, from pity

thatstuff" From

what Powell saw of the very act I am fairly certain it must have been

contained in a capsule and that he had it about him on the last day of

his trial, perhaps secured by a stitch in his waistcoat pocket He

didn't use it Why? Did he think of his child at the last e? We can't tell But he found it in his clothes when

he caation if there was any

Chance had armed him And chance alone, the chance of Mr Powell's life,

forced hiainst himself

I imparted my theory to Mr Poho accepted it at once as, in a

sense, favourable to the father of Mrs Anthony Then he waved his hand

"Don't let us think of it"

I acquiesced and very soon he observed drea all over the world for near

on six years Al as Franklin"

"Oh yes! What about Franklin?" I asked

Powell smiled "He left the Ferndale a year or so afterwards, and I