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- -_ * > od a : ~ . - i. SURMISES AND CONJECTURES. 63 _ ef poor Ned; and that was only a few hours ago, just in the edge of the evening. No doubt of it in my mind.” “T didn’t meet Overton—that. is to say, I don’t know that I met him,” replied the peddier, who had mingled with the crowd, and could now have almost bitten his tongue in two for having mentioned any thing about the pursuit he had wit- nessed. “ Ah. it won't do now, Nathan,” said the burly man, with a coarse sneer; “you are brother Yankees, you know, and must sland by each other. For my part, I prefer believing your first story.” - © He has been absent from town all day, I believe,” said the \ ‘ J little man in black, in a soft, insinuating voice. ry “ He had his pistols repaired last Saturday,” said the village . smith. Se “He has received some suspicious-looking letters,” said the ~. Jandlord and postmaster. “ He bought a jack-knife of me no longer ago than yester- day,” said the shopkeeper. in this way the crowd went on, almost every one seem*ng fixed in his suspicions, and willing to add weight to the cirerm- ___ S8tances which appeared against our hero, We would not Lave it inferred from this, that Charles Dudley had created no fricnds during his residence in Adrianopolis. On the contrary his kind, -__ conciliatory manners and disposition had made him rather a ___ general favorite. But it is our duty to record events as they a3 occurred ; leaving it to each reader to reconcile them with his wn particular notions of human nature. Probably the very as penne who now, in their random bar-room talk, and in the up moments of excitement, seemed willing to confirm the __ course suspicion was taking, would, were Dudley condemned, ___— or even apprehended, haye exerted themselycs in his behalf, Fe _ and if acquitted, would have cordially rejoiced. There were not wanting some in the assemblage who opposed the suspicions which involved the character of our hety. BS or meter wig be bad mee, ithe borne OF thoes Ik imsell, by repo w e seen, With some of those lit- tle embellishments which travelers and story-tellers feel privi- ee to use, had furnished the strongest ground of itnputation, _ Finding himself encountered by his own story, whichever way -_ fae turned, he at last desisted from~argument, dropped sulicenly into a corner, and turning 4 deaf ear to the babble and ciamor around him, busied his mind in an endeavor to frame some plan of rendering a service to Dudley, equal to the injury he had been the unwitting means of doing him. _ _ Persons at le came into the bar-room to remove the bod <p Th part of the house, in order to prepare it for bi ‘ ha it, a leather indo. which had been dangling from feet of the corpse, was accidentally loosened, aud fell, i » 4 rhe ri, a, = 4 -_. * ~*~} a ms o * Sead comicbooks.com J * - « ©. ~ he eS tee OS mee Se ee ee,