I question whether he had anything to do with the murder." Mr.Dill opened his eyes.

"But his flight, Mr.Archibald, And his stopping away ?" "Suspicious circumstances, I grant.

Still, I have good cause to doubt.
At the time it happened, some dandy fellow used to come courting Afy Hallijohn in secret; a tall, slender man, as he is described to me, bearing the name of Thorn, and living at Swainson.

Could it have been one of the Thorn family ?" "Mr.Archibald!" remonstrated the old clerk; "as if those two respected gentlemen, with their wives and babies, would come sneaking after that flyaway Afy!" "No reflection on them," returned Mr.Carlyle.

"This was a young man, three or four and twenty, a head taller than either.