Penny Blood Serial Fiction — page 71: what you’re looking at

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54 REYNOLDS’ WORKS dale, nor could he of course form the slightest conjecture as to the author or authors of the crime. — Having hastily dressed himself, he proceeded without delay to Evergreen Villa. The intelligence had already reached the cook, the groom, and the coachman, the news- paper having likewise been their informant. Consternation and dismay prevailed at the villa, and indeed great was the excitement throughout the neighbourhood, it being known that the mistress of the house and her attendant maid had met with their death under such mysterious circumstances in Lincolnshire. Some relations of the un- fortunate Emily Archer, and who dwelt in London, made their appearance at the villa soon after Lord Saxondale’s arrival there, and they took possession of the house and all the property it contained. After some little deliberation, it was decided that one of them — an uncle — should pro- ceed without delay into Lincolnshire, and bring up the corpses for the purposes of respectable interment. Dispirited, and with a gloom sitting heavily upon his soul, Edmund quitted the villa and returned to Saxondale House, his mind filled with the awful tragedy which had taken place under such extraordinary and unaccountable circumstances. Gomicbooks: co