Pelham, Or, Adventures of a Gentleman: Or, the Adventures of a Gentleman ...
Pelham, Or, Adventures of a Gentleman: Or, the Adventures of a Gentleman ...
Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton
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"Why," said I, apart to Thornton, while all the rest were crowding fearfully round the corpse, — "why did you not take the body within?" "I was going to return here with our servant for that pur- pose," answered the gambler; "for -pooi Dawson was both too drunk and too nervous to give me any assistance." "And how came it," I rejoined, eying him searchingly, • OR, ADVENTURES OF A GENTLEMAN. 808 "that you Spiid your friend had not returned home when I called there, although you had both long sinc...e passed me on the road, and I had never overtaken you ? " Thornton, without any hesitation, replied: ''Because, dur- ing the violence of the shower, we cut across the fields to an old shed, which we recollected, and we remained there till the rain had ceased." "They are probably innocent," thought I; and I turned to look once more at the body, which our companions had now raised. There was upon the head a strong contusion, as if inflicted by some blunt and heavy instrument. The fingers of the right hand were deeply gashed, and one of them almost dissevered: the unfortunate man had, in all probability, grasped the sharp weapon from which his other wounds pro- ceeded: these were one wide cut along the throat, and an- other in the side; either of them would have occasioned his death.
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