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Nay, this must not be: I must not take two lives at once,—the innocent with the guilty. (After a pause.) There is a window at the end of the room, looking to the beech walk; I'll fire in at that. Holla! holla! you who pass there! Murder! murder! There is murder committed here; and we demand of every body in the king's name to give us assistance.

Murder! where? who?

In the house yonder! my master!

We heard the report of fire-arms. Was it then?