[Colonel Thorndyke’s Secret by G. A. Henty]@TWC D-Link bookColonel Thorndyke’s Secret CHAPTER III 30/36
We have had our eye upon him for some time.
He was brought before your honors a week ago charged with being drunk and disorderly in this town, and was fined 5 pounds.
He is constantly drinking with some of the worst characters in the place, and is strongly suspected of having been concerned in the fray between the poachers and Sir Charles Harris' gamekeepers.
Two of the latter said that they recognized him amongst the poachers, but as they both declined to swear to him we did not arrest him." John Knapp was then recalled, and testified to Bastow's drinking habits, and that the landlord of the alehouse at Crowswood had been ordered by the Squire not to draw any liquor for him in future on pain of having the renewal of his license refused. "Have you any more witnesses to call ?" the chairman asked the head constable. "Not at present, your honor.
We have sent up to town, and on the next occasion the coachman will be called to testify to the shooting of the guard, and we hope to have some of the passengers there to identify the articles stolen from them." "It will be necessary that the Rev.Mr.Bastow should be here.
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