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Chapter 6.

The End of the Dark Road

Once more, Slapperton on the sloshy rang

with the subject dismissed from the public mind eight years ago,

and now revived with a great deal more excitement

and discussion than ever.

That subject was the murder of Mr. Monahue Harding.

All Slapperton made itself into one voice,

and spoke, but upon one theme,

the bending trial of another man

for that very crime of which Richard Marwood

had been found guilty years ago.

Richard, who, according to report,

had died in an attempt to escape

from the county asylum.

Very little was known of the criminal,

but a great deal was conjectured.

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