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There were days of gloom that followed now for the inmates of the house upon the island, and even the confident and thick-skinned Edgehill lost something of his equanimity and of his indifference as to what the future might be holding in store for him.
The return of Bull as a sea-soaked corpse upon the sands with a bullet through his head and with his pockets picked had fallen like a bomb among them, and had left them numb and almost speechless in their bewilderment.