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The Trial by Charlotte Mary Yonge
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'And had you any reason for thinking this one of such plans!'

'Yes,' said Aubrey; 'for he talked of getting gold enough to build up
the market-cross, or else of going to see the Feejee Islands.

'Then you understood the prisoner not to express a deliberate
purpose, so much as a vague design.'

'Just so,' said Aubrey. 'A design that depended on how things went
on at the mill.' And being desired to explain his words, he added,
that Leonard had said he could not bear the sight of Sam Axworthy's
tyranny over the old man, and was resolved not to stay, if he were
made a party to any of the dishonest tricks of the trade.

'In that case, did he say where he would have gone?'

'First to New Zealand, to my brother, the Reverend Norman May.'

Leonard's counsel was satisfied with the colour the conversation had
now assumed; but the perils of re-examination were not over yet, for
the adverse lawyer requested to know whence the funds were to have
come for this adventurous voyage.

'We laughed a little about that, and he said he should have to try
how far his quarter's salary would go towards a passage in the
steerage.'

'If your friend expressed so strong a distaste to his employers and
their business, what induced him to enter it?'
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