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ox when we're in. And don't speak nor say nothing." Then the senior policeman entered the house. He found Mrs. Crawley sitting in the parlour with her bonnet and shawl on, and Mr. Crawley in the arm-chair, leaning over the fire. "I suppose we had better go with you," said Mrs. Crawley directly the door was opened; for of course she had seen the arrival of the fly from the window. "The gentleman had better come with us if he'll be so kind," said Thompson. "I've brought a close carriage for him." "But I may go with him?" said the wife, with frightened voice. "I may accompany my husband. He is not well, sir, and wants assistance." Thompson thought about it for a moment before he spoke. There was room in the fly for only two, or if for three, still he knew his place better than to thrust himself inside together with his prisoner and his prisoner's wife. He had been specially asked by Mr. Walker to be very civil. Only one could sit on the box with the driver, and if the request was conceded the poor policeman must walk back. The walk, however, would not kill the policeman. "All right, ma'am," said Thompson;--"that is, if the gentleman will just pass his word not to get out till I ask him." "He will not! He will not!" said Mrs. Crawley. "I will pass my word for nothing," said Mr. Crawley. Upon hearing this, Thompson assumed a very long face, and shook his head as he turned his eyes first towards the husband and then towards the wife, and shrugged his shoulders, and compressing his lips, blew out his breath, as though in this way he might blow off some of the mingled sorrow and indignation with which the gentleman's words afflicted him. Mrs. Crawley rose and came close to him. "You may take my word for it, he will not stir. You may indeed. He thinks it incumbent on him not to give any undertaking himself, because he feels himself to be so harshly used." "I don't know about harshness," said Thompson, brindling up. "A close carriage brought and--" "I will walk. If I am made to go, I will walk," shouted Mr. Crawley. "I did not allude to you,--or to Mr. Walker," said the poor wife. "I know you have been most kind. I meant the harshness of the circumstances. Of course he is innocent, and you must feel for him." "Yes, I feel for him, and for you too, ma'am." "That is all I meant. He knows his own innocence, and therefore he is unwilling to give way in anything." "Of course he knows hisself, that's cer
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