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The
mystery of Mr. E. DROOD.

An adaptation,

By Orpheus C. Kerr.

CHAPTER XII.

A night of it with MCLAUGHLIN.

Judge Sweeney, with a certain supercilious consciousness that he is figuring in a novel, and that it will not do for him to thwart the eccentricities of mysterious fiction by any commonplace deference to the mere meteorological weaknesses of ordinary human nature, does not allow the fact that late December is a rather bleak and cold time of year to deter him from taking daily airings in the neighborhood of the Ritualistic churchyard.  Since the inscription of his epitaph on his late wife upon her monument therein, the churchyard is to him