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AMID THE GRAVES.
What time Sir Richard had been dying in the inner room, Mr.Green and two of his acolytes had improved the occasion by making a thorough search in Sir Richard's writing-table and a thorough investigation of every scrap of paper found there.

From which you will understand how much Mr.Green was a gentleman who set business above every other consideration.
The man who had shot Sir Richard had been ordered by Mr.Green to take himself off, and had been urged to go down on his knees, for once in a way, and pray Heaven that his rashness might not bring him to the gallows as he so richly deserved.
His fourth myrmidon Mr.Green had dispatched with a note to my Lord Rotherby, and it was entirely upon the answer he should receive that it must depend whether he proceeded or not, forthwith, to the apprehension of Mr.Caryll.Meanwhile the search went on amain, and was extended presently to the very bedroom where the dead Sir Richard lay.

Every nook and cranny was ransacked; the very mattress under the dead man was removed, and investigated, and even Mr.Caryll and Bentley had to submit to being searched.

But it all proved fruitless.