CHAPTER X-2

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"Call Edward Wimp." The story Edward Wimp had to tell began tamely enough with thrice-threshed-out facts. But at last the new facts came. "In consequence of suspicions that had formed in your mind you took up your quarters, disguised, in the late Mr. Constant's rooms?" "I did; at the commencement of the year. My suspicions had gradually gathered against the occupants of No. 11, Glover Street, and I resolved to quash or confirm these suspicions once for all." "Will you tell the jury what followed?" "Whenever the prisoner was away for the night I searched his room. I found the key of Mr. Constant's bedroom buried deeply in the side of prisoner's leather sofa. I found what I imagine to be the letter he received on December 3d, in the pages of a 'Bradshaw' lying under the same sofa. There

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