'Come with me!' Softly turning
the key upon him as they went out, he conducted Martin into the
adjoining room, in which they had been before.
Martin was so amazed, so shocked, and confounded by what he had heard
that it was some time before he could reduce it to any order in his
mind, or could sufficiently comprehend the bearing of one part upon
another, to take in all the details at one view. When he, at length, had
the whole narrative clearly before him, John Westlock went on to point
out the great probability of the guilt of Jonas being known to other
people, who traded in it for their own benefit, and who were, by
such means, able to exert that control over him which Tom Pinch had
accidentally witnessed, and unconsciously assisted. This appeared so
plain, that they agreed upon it without difficulty; but instead of
deriving the least assistance from this source, they found that it
embarrassed them the more.
They knew nothing of the real parties who possessed this power. The only
person before them was Tom's landlord. They had no right to question
Tom's landlord, even if they could find him, which, according to Tom's
account, it would not be easy to do.
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