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Red Money

CHAPTER IX
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Then the servants and my friends came and we ran out, to find the man lying by that shrubbery quite dead.

I turned him over and had just grasped the fact that he was my brother-in-law, when Lady Agnes ran out.
When she learned the news she naturally fainted.

The women carried her back to her room, and we took the body of Pine into the house.

A doctor came along this morning--for I sent for a doctor as soon as it was dawn--and said that Pine had been shot through the heart." "And who shot him ?" asked Darby sagely.
Garvington pointed to the shrubbery.

"Someone was concealed there," he declared.
"How do you know, that, my lord ?" "My sister, attracted by my shot, jumped out of bed and threw up her window.


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