Yet, while the colonel shared his cigar case with Mr.
Douglas, and Mr. Terry smoked his dudeen, Mr. Bangs wrote to Toronto an
account of the escaped prisoner's death, Miss Du Plessis resigned her
type writership to Messrs. Tylor, Woodruff, and White, Mr. Wilkinson
sent in to the Board of School Trustees his resignation of the
Sacheverell Street School, and the Squire, on behalf of his niece,
signified that her position in the same was vacant, and informed the
legal firm of the serious illness of their junior partner. The clergymen
returned to their lodgings and their duties, and the constable, having
no living criminal to watch over, relieved Timotheus and Ben Toner of
their care of the dead. Maguffin had summoned Messrs. Newberry, Pawkins,
and Johnson for the coroner's jury in the morning, and no excitement was
left at Bridesdale. When night came, all retired to rest, except the one
watcher by the bedside of despair. Early in the morning, when the sun
began to shine upon the night dews and peep through the casements, a tap
came to the dominie's door. He was awake, he had not even undressed,
and, therefore, answered it at once.
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