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You haven't looked at the _Post_ this morning? There's nothing in it. Dearth of real news is, I suppose, responsible for this? and he pointed, frowning as he spoke, to a column on the middle page headed
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The Jarvice Mystery. New Developments.
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In these days newspapers have to follow, not lead, the public taste. Very few people are honestly as indifferent as you are, father, to that sort of story. Now even I, who never met poor old Jarvice, cannot help wondering how he came by his death; and yet you, who knew the man----
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I knew him, said the other with a touch of impatience,
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Never mind; you, at any rate, can put a face to the man's name; and yet the question as to whether he was or was not poisoned by his wife, is one of indifference to you! Now I submit that in this indifference you are really a little---- he hesitated for a word, but found that none so well expressed his thought as that which had first arisen to his lips--
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Am I? said Thomas Carden slowly;
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--Major Lane was at that time Head Constable of Birmingham, and a lifelong friend of the speaker--
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Lane was quite full of it last night. He insisted on telling me all the details of the affair, and what shocked me, my boy, was not so much the question which, of course, occupied Lane--that is, as to whether that unhappy young woman poisoned her husband or not--but the whole state of things which he disclosed about them. Lane told me certain facts concerning Jarvice, whom, as you truly say, I have known, in a sense, for years, which I should not have thought possible of any man--vile things, which should have prevented his thinking of marriage, especially of marriage with a young wife.