Agnes Vol. 2 — page 216: what you’re looking at

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AGNES; OR, BEAUTY AND PLEASURE. “ 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 accomplieh.” - CIIAPTAR XXXVI. t THE CHAIN ‘¥ EVIDENCE. WE may now proceed to Otail the circumstances which ultimately led to thé@jarrest of Mr. Tim- perley on the very serious ch of having been the murderer of the woman Chifkiade. The private cormmunication{ whica the valet No. 70.—AGNEB. 919 oe a Hil mem iit a z a | | il : i amt | i Baty 4 a , "i 1 oe 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 wae 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. le 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 hedgo a little higher up in the lane in Sor to take a short cut across the fields. Whén I afterwards heard that the , Woman had bedm found murdered, I did not fora * Vou It. 1OOO () GOLMLG SS COLUM