In Sight of St. Paul's — page 180: what you’re looking at

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THE LAST LINK. 175 “‘Look at these pistols,’’ he said, with an abrupt- ness which was startling and which was meant to be so. *‘One of them was the cause of your son’s death, and one your oldest son acknowledges to be his, or rather yours. Now, Mr. Chichester, which do you recognize ?”? It was a cruel thing to do, considering the old gen- tleman’s condition, and Clarkson knew it, but he sternly crushed back everything except the sense of what his duty demanded of him—the discovery of the murderer by any and all means in his power. Mr. Chichester bent forward and looked closely at the two weapons produced for-his examination. Then he pointed a quivering finger toward one of them. | | ‘(That is the one my son Tom took from me,’’ he said. | A look of satisfaction, not unmingled with pity, stole over the inspector’s face. He returned the pis- tols to his pocket, announcing, as he did so: ‘And that is the one the crime was committed with.’? | At this Becky, realizing it all, turned to fly, but as she did so, she confronted Tom Chichester, who had entered unperceived and had heard it all. He was standing in the door-way with white, set face. e eer Gomicbooks.¢o