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mean that your lady can't prosecute,' said the Sergeant.
`Rosanna Spearman is simply an instrument in the hands of another person, and Rosanna Spearman will be held harmless for that other person's sake.'
He spoke like a man in earnest--there was no denying that. Still, I felt something stirring uneasily against him in my mind.
`Can't you give that other person a name?' I said.
`Can't you, Mr. Betteredge?'
`No.'
Sergeant Cuff stood stock-still, and surveyed me with a look of melancholy interest.
`It's always a pleasure to me to be tender towards human infirmity,' he said. `I feel particularly tender at the present moment, Mr. Betteredge, towards you. And you, with the same excellent motive, feel particularly tender towards Rosanna Spearman,
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