Agnes, or, Beauty and Pleasure — page 217: what you’re looking at

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AGNES; OR, BEAUTY AND PLEASURE. a AL Gh | ire} \ / / i “ Gentlemen,” said Sir Roderick Dalham to the creditors, when the detective offiver had disap- peared with his prisoner, “I regret that I have not succeeded in obtaining for you a recognition of your just claims; but though hitherto the vil- lain has remained hardened, you have yet in your favour the chances of what the influence of a felon’s gaol may accomplish.” — eee CHAPTER XXXVi. @HE CHAIN OF EVIDENCE. WE may now proceed to detail the circumstances which ultimately led to the arrest of Mr. Tim- perley on the very serious charge of having been > the murderer of the woman Chicklade. The private communication which the valet | No. 79.—AGNEs. \? 209 LALA TT ' t l| ! James Nash made to Sir Roderick Dalham, was to the following effect :—‘“ [remember that on the very day when that woman was assassinated, I saw Mr. Timperley in conversation with her. I know it was the same woman, because I subsequently went and saw her corpse at the public-house where the inquest was held. It was also in the very lane where the woman was found dead that I saw Mr. Timperley with her. It was also at such an hour in the afternoon, that considering other cir- cumstances which were proved on Lady Dalham’s (Winifred’s) trial, might well agree with the sup- position that Mr. Timperley was the murderer, He did not notice me at the time; because I was re- turning hastily to the villa from an errand on which I had been sent by Sir John Dalham—and I forced my way through the hedge a little higher up in the lane in order to take a short cut across the fields) When I afterwards heard that the woman had been found murdered, I did not fora Vou IL, (©) =} lNOOLK (©) 5}