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CHAPTER XII. GATHERED THREADS.
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The terribly sudden death of Kester St. George, left Lionel Dering with two courses to choose between. On the one hand he could carry out his original intention of going abroad, under an assumed name, leaving the world still to believe that he was dead. On the other hand, he could give himself up to justice, under his real name, and, his first trial never having been finished--take his stand at the bar again under the original charge, and with the proofs he had gathered in his possession, let his innocence1 of the crime imputed2 to him work itself out through a legitimate3 channel to a verdict of Not Guilty. This latter course was the only one open to him if he wished to clear himself in the eyes of the world from the stain of blood, or even if he wished to assume his own name and his position as the owner of Park Newton. But did he really wish this thing? That idea of going abroad, of burying himself and his wife in some far-away nook of the New World, had taken such hold on his imagination, that even now it had by no means lost its sweetness in his thoughts. Then, again, Kester having died without a will, if he--Lionel were to leave himself undeclared, the estate would go to General St. George, as next of kin5, and after the old soldier's time it would go, in the natural course of events, to his brother Richard. Why, then, declare himself? why give himself into custody6 and undergo the pain and annoyance7 of another term of imprisonment8, and another trial--and they would be both painful and annoying, even though his innocence were proved at the end of them? Why not rather bind9 over to silence those few trusted friends to whom his secret was already known, and going abroad with Edith, spend the remainder of his days in happy obscurity. Why re-open that bloodstained page of family history, over which the world had of a surety gloated
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confession
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prospect
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ad.合法地;正当地,合理地 | |
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corporeal
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