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had made careful minutes of the information derived from these examinations. They threw little light upon the story, so far as he understood its purport; but the better informed reader has received, through means of this investigation, an account of Brown's proceedings, between the moment when we left him upon his walk to Kippletringnn, and the time when, stung by jealousy, he so rashly and unhappily presented himself before Julia Mannering, and well nigh brought