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CHAPTER XIII. ISABELLA. "Ay, but I do, major. Jaggard helped to steal the body of Mr. Alymer. He opened the window to admit his accomplices. When they fulfilled their task and got the body out of the room they turned on Jaggard and betrayed him. That is, they drugged him and knocked him down." "My poor lads," said he, in a voice full of pathos. "First one and then the other--to lose them both in this awful fashion.".
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