Beautiful Rienzi; or, The Secret Vendetta — page 125: what you’re looking at

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118 | BEAUTIFUL RIENZL. and ran across the fields to a house which he saw half a mile or less, distant. When he was about fifty rods from the house, he saw a man running toward him whom he stopped, and told what he had seen. ‘Where?’ said the man. | «“Come on, and I’ll show you,” said the peddler; ‘‘and the young girl as did it, ’m afraid, has cleared.” «Was there a young girl?” he asked, startled like. Then the peddler told him what he had heard as the ‘sleigh passed him. They ran on, until they reached the place, and scrambled down the rocks together. No sooner had the new-comer looked at the face of the body, than he cried: «« By Heaven! it's just as Tihoaghe @it’s young Master Cecil!” Then he said that he was a servant that belonged to the young gentleman’s mother, and she lived in the house across the field. So they made abier of hurdles, and car- ried the body up to the doorstep, where the servant left it, while he went to prepare the mother. Pretty soon he came out and helped the peddler in with: the body, to a parlor where it was put on a sofa, and a lady came in and flung herself on the floor beside it. The peddler went into the kitchen with the servant and they staid there about an hour, until Mrs, Beaumont came out and called the servant, and they talked together a long time, and then the servant came back, and asked the ped- dler if he would go to a magistrate who was about two miles distant, and make his deposition, and get men set on the tracks of the murderess. Hegot a sovereign from the servant, and set off though it was about one o'clock then. Cross-examined by Mr. Speingle: ‘¢You heard a strange rumbling noise, like the rattling of stones andthe crashing of wood, followed by a dull ex- plosion that shook the ground. Was this noise, in your opinion, caused by the young lady pushing the deceased over the bridge?” The witness looked at the counsel for the State. “Look at me, if you please, and answer my questions honestly.” ‘Tm not sure that it was.” +-comicbooks.co