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Chapter 5

Mr. Peters decides on a strange step and arrests the dead.

While Mr. Peters assisted by Richard Sincere friend, the young surgeon,

made the visit above described, daredevil dick counted the hours in London.

It was essential to the success of his cause,

Gus and Peters urged, that he should not show himself,

or in any way reveal the fact of his existence,

to the real murderer was arrested.

Let the truth appear to all the world,

and then time enough for Richard to come forth,

with an unbranded forehead in the sight of his fellow men.

But when he heard that Raymond Morrell had given his pursuers the slip,

it was all that his mother, his friend Percy Cordona,

Isabella Darlie, and the lawyers, to whom he had entrusted his cause,

could do to prevent his starting that instant on the track of the guilty man.

It was a weary day, the day of the failure of the arrest, for all.

Neither his mother's tender consolation nor his solicitors, assurances,

that all was not yet lost, could moderate the young man's impatience.

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