The Twin Detectives; or, The Robbers of the Tomb — page 184: what you’re looking at

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THE TWIN DETECTIVES. - 175 She walked rapidly now. She was near the end of her journey. Close to the river ! She could see it now, rolling silently on, the bright lights of the great city reflected on its bosom. ‘“« He told me to do it /” she muttered. She was very near the cold, still water now. The lights on the surface seemed to say: ‘«Come, hide your shame!” She walked out on a long pier. Thoughts of her dead mother came to her. Would she soon. be with her? ‘Thou shalt do no murder!” As if the words were shouted by myriad tongues she heard them. She was losing heart. She must wait no longer. She threw up her arms, and with one wild cry, the last cry of a lost soul, she plunged into the dark, silent river CHAPTER XXXV. MR. GRANT. Charlie Hudson had hesitated before hearing Mrs. Mor- dred’s story. He at first felt inclined to refuse to have anything todo | with the case which Bob Brierly had so arrogantly claimed as his. On more serious reflection, however, he came to the con- clusion that if Mrs. Mordred was once put off, she would probably change her mind and never reveal the secret of the mysterious robbery of the vault. Accordingly, the next day, he called at the house in Wash- ington square, and requested to sée the landlord. Mr. Broom came into the parlor, and bowed PoHvery bes fore a possible boarder, = + EComichbooks.co