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contain, you will find the article you are
sent for in a small box in the left hand
drawer of the wardrobe in my bedroom."
This outburst did him no good. They
set him down as defying the law in his
insolence. Coroner and jury alike felt
themselves aggrieved by his contemptuous
tone, and the still more contemptuous
manner w^ith which he sat with folded
arms, and watched the proceedings, with as
much apparent nonchalance as if they did
not affect him in the least.
Then the two fishermen gave their evi-
dence, as to the cry for^help they had heard,
proceeding from the Fort, that afternoon.
It was after four o'clock, they were sure of
that,—that is, some time after the hour at
which Audley Dale had appointed to meet
Mrs. Thornton at the Fort—but it was
before half-past five, the time at which, as
nearly as he could remember, the shrimper
had seen Mr. Dale leave the Fort. The
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