Edward Duron

“ How should I act 1
If I gave these two men up to justice (supposing the overseer survived) , what proof was there that they had poisoned the "paralytic?" I asked Alice—so we will now call her—whether the overseer had spoil with him or not.
She said he had admitted to her that he had gold, notes, and securities to a very large amount upon him.
I then searched the still sleeping "Doctor;" he was so motionless and deathlike that I began to fear lest the chloroform had had a fatal effect upon him.
I found nothing but a few dollars, and a revolver, which I took ”

“ I have my revolver not loaded if it were I couldn't shoot these men down without more proof against them than a word only seen, not heard. It is of no use giving them up at the end of our journey for, of course, they will say that, half-dead when he started, he died of the cold in the cars. Cold Yes bitterly, piercingly cold and our stove does not seem to give the heat it should and there is no more fuel ! ”

“ Fortunately passion defeated itself, and uncle was not a murderer. " The overseer smiled an evil smile, and said " ' Never mind it was only a little misWe will settle affairs another da take " Not long after this, the fellow who is asleep there, and who is the overseer's brother, came and joined him. He is a doctor. ”