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and David Widger, widger@cecomet.net BOOK IV. CHAPTER I. A RE-ENTRANCE INTO LIFE THROUGH THE EBON GATE, AFFLICTION. MONTHS passed away before my senses returned to me. I rose from the bed
of suffering and of madness calm, collected, immovable,--altered, but
tranquil. All the vigilance of justice had been employed to discover
the murderers, but in vain. The packet was gone; and directly I, who
alone was able to do so, recovered enough to state the loss of that
document, suspicion naturally rested on Gerald, as on one whom that loss
essentially benefited. He came publicly forward to anticipate inquiry.
He proved that he had not stirred from home during the whole week in
which the event had occurred. That seemed likely enough to others; it
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