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Mr. Fortescue

CHAPTER V
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We have not seen the last of Giuseppe Griscelli, Mr.Bacon." "I am afraid we have not.

I never saw such an expression of intense hatred in my life! Has he cause for it ?" "I dare say he thinks so.

I killed his father and his grand-father." This, uttered as indifferently as if it were a question of killing hares and foxes, was more than I could stand.

I am not strait-laced, but I draw the line at murder.
"You did what ?" I exclaimed, as, horror-struck and indignant, I stopped in the path and looked him full in the face.
I thought I had never seen him so Mephistopheles-like.

A sinister smile parted his lips, showing his small white teeth gleaming under his gray mustache, and he regarded me with a look of cynical amusement, in which there was perhaps a slight touch of contempt.
"You are a young man, Mr.Bacon," he observed, gently, "and, like most young men, and a great many old men, you make false deductions.


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