[The Midnight Passenger by Richard Henry Savage]@TWC D-Link bookThe Midnight Passenger CHAPTER XIII 4/38
I will give you my whole time. "And if you sustain Witherspoon here, I will hound down the murderer, and, perhaps, fix a further responsibility on the only man to whose interest it was to blot out Randall Clayton's blameless life." There was a joint exclamation as the three gazed inquiringly at each other. "Arthur Ferris!" "Yes," solemnly said the dark-eyed doctor.
"He was luring Clayton to his grave! He may have tried other plans, and, perhaps foiled by Clayton's suspicions or by mere accident, have used the real murderer here as his tool." Alice Worthington's golden hair gleamed out, as her head fell upon her hands.
Her face was ashen-pale, as she faltered out, "Have you found any papers ?" The girl bride's heart beat wildly.
There was the imperilled honor of her father, guilty in intent in her mind now, as she whispered, "Is any one implicated ?" "Listen!" said the young physician, rising and pacing the room. "We have a trap set for a humble tool of the real murderer, whom we believe to be hiding in Europe.
We must act somewhat outside of the law.
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