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The Dead Alive

CHAPTER X
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CHAPTER X..
THE SHERIFF AND THE GOVERNOR.
THE question of time was now a serious question at Morwick Farm.

In six weeks the court for the trial of criminal cases was to be opened at Narrabee.
During this interval no new event of any importance occurred.
Many idle letters reached us relating to the advertisement for John Jago; but no positive information was received.

Not the slightest trace of the lost man turned up; not the shadow of a doubt was cast on the assertion of the prosecution, that his body had been destroyed in the kiln.

Silas Meadowcroft held firmly to the horrible confession that he had made.

His brother Ambrose, with equal resolution, asserted his innocence, and reiterated the statement which he had already advanced.
At regular periods I accompanied Naomi to visit him in the prison.


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