Mister Webster, He Began Innocent of Threat

Webster talked nearly 20 minutes, explaining his eagerness to be thoroughly frank as to every detail. Hastings detected a little twitching of the muscles at the corners of his mouth and the too frequent winking of his eyes. They saw the change in him. Instead of the genial, drawling, slow moving old fellow who had seemed thankful for anything he might chance to hear, they were confronted now by an arosed, quick thinking man whose words came from him with a sharp, clipped off effect.

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