Her Faithful Knight — page 317: what you’re looking at

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Tracked Down. 313 physical coward, but the howl of an indignant mob is try- ing to the nerves of even the strongest and most self- possessed of men. As he approached the door of the coroner’s court by the side of Jack Wyverley, who accom- panied him from motives of curiosity solely, Derrick’s glance fell upon Aylmer, and he at once recognized him as the man he had seen lurking about Lockhart Cottages on a foggy afternoon a week before, and whom he had also noticed at the opening of the inquest. An instinctive conviction that this tall, fair man who eyed him in so unfriendly a manner was in some way deeply concerned in the case made Darcy address Aylmer as he joined him by the door of the court. | “You hear that ignorant crowd outside?” he said in plaintive accents. “If they knew a little, only a little, of the truth, they would pity me instead of hooting me.” Aylmer started as the man addressed him, and almost involuntarily drew aside as though disgusted by the thought of possible contact with him. “If they knew a little more of te truth,” he said curtly, “they might possibly lynch you.” The words slipped out, inspired by detestation of Doro- thy’s persecutor. But almost immediately Aylmer knew that he had done an unwise thing in uttering them. Darcy fixed the gaze of his large blue eyes intently upon him, and then whispered something to his companion, who laughed and said aloud that it was “very likely.” A few minutes later they were all inside the court, and the proceedings had begun. | Dr.. Wentworth’s evidence was taken first, and appar- ently much against his will he was questioned closely as to the state in which he found the missing Phyllis Knight and her servant Cresswell after the death of his patient, Dorothy. Cresswell, so the tall, stiff-mannered, young.,doctor.