Bedney

You might say I was a liar and a thief, and maybe I would take it as a joke; but don't call Bedney

At the Mercy of Tiberius 1872

"Bedney") -- who had once saved his mother's life at the risk of his own.

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For the first time Bedney raised his eyes toward the place where

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Bedney hastened to procure the designated chair, which he mounted in front of the mantel piece, and thence reaching up to the portrait of

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"Bedney, I want to see that handkerchief you found in your master's room, the day after he was murdered."

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Bedney picked it up, and we said nothing and laid low, and hid the thing; but that Godforsaken and predestinated sinner, Miss Angeline, kept sarching and eavesdrapping, and set the lie-yers on the scent, and they have 'strained Bedney on peril of jailing him, to perduce it.

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Hearing the knock on the door, her voice swelled louder, and Bedney, the picture of perplexity, stood filling his pipe, when the bolt was turned, and a gentleman holding a whip and wearing a long overcoat entered the room.

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Well may Bedney ask, 'where is your corpus delicti?'

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"Are you not the wife of Bedney, who saved my mother's life, when the barn burned?"

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Mr. Churchill sat leaning a little forward, as if intent on Dyce's movements, but his elbow rested on the arm of the rocking chair, and holding his hand up to screen his face from the blaze of the fire, he was closely watching Bedney.

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