The Illegal Marriage — page 120: what you’re looking at

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112 THE ILLEGAL MARRIAGE. mysterious affair than I can now. They may send for you, if so you’ll find a horse in the stables.” “Thanks! Was there no doctor beside Trippe?” “None. If they have any doubt about the matter they may send for you. There’s very little about it in my opinion.” “How so?” “The murderer broke in the window. Morgan must have struggled with him, for there was blood all over the floor.” “Who could have done it?” “There itis! I’m sure I haven’t the remotest idea who could have done it. One of the negroes says that he sawa horse tied by the edge of the timber, and afterward caught a man hanging about the shrubbery.” “Could it have been for revenge or for robbery? Morgan was not a very amiable man.” “Ham, I have nota suspicion. Miss Morgan can tell nothing about it. The old man was raving about her in the most absurd way when he died. Trippe heard it.” “Perhaps I’d better see her if they do not send for me.” “T wish you would, Ham. I must go now.” A few passing remarks were exchanged, and Stannard rode away, leaving his friend at the gate. Left to himself, Stannard’s mind took a rapid survey of the events whick had crowded themselves into the few past hours, and tried in vain to make some kind of a connected story of them, “We read in the papers, and in books,” he thought, “of these mysterious murders, and when told by clever writers are affected by them, Who Comicbooks.¢co