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"That is improbable, if to do so she has to betray her mother or her nurse. I don't think you'll learn much in that quarter, major." "I can't give you my reasons. They would take too long to explain. But I believe that out of jealousy he killed Maurice." "No," said Dido, bluntly, "I say dat I in de room, but I no kill dat man.".
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The counsel for the defense objected to the use of the word crime. Nothing, he submitted, had yet been proved.I tried logging in using my phone number and I
was supposed to get a verification code text,but didn't
get it. I clicked resend a couple time, tried the "call
me instead" option twice but didn't get a call
either. the trouble shooting had no info on if the call
me instead fails.There was
Evidently it was impossible to extract information from so impenetrable a man. Jen was thoroughly enraged by this display of obstinacy in a quarter where he least expected to find it. Usually sweet-tempered--especially toward his boys--the major quite lost control of his passion at the moment.
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Evidence--in brief--of Major Jen: "I was the guardian of the deceased Maurice Alymer. I adopted him as my son. He was in love with, and engaged to, Miss Dallas, but the mother did not approve of the engagement. Dr. Etwald, the prisoner, also loved Miss Dallas, but she refused to marry him. I showed the prisoner the devil-stick and explained its use, whereupon he wished to purchase it. I declined to part with it, and afterward it was stolen. After its disappearance, Mr. Alymer was killed by means of the devil-stick poison. His hand was but slightly scratched, and he could not have died from so trivial a cause had not the weapon used been poisoned. Moreover, I recognized the perfume which emanated from the body as that of the devil-stick poison. Dr. Etwald had threatened the deceased once or twice. Afterward the body of deceased disappeared, and the drug used to stupefy the watcher of the dead was the poison of the devil-stick." Patricia drew in her breath with a gasp. She put her hand on the knob of the door and noiselessly turned it. "But you filled the devil-stick with fresh poison?" Elinor looked at them with a little quick sigh of excited envy..
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