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he kept moaning `` and I one to twenty , Percy , all in broad day . Was it fair , I ask ? '' Robert 's outcries became anything but `` blank paper and scribble '' to the widow , when he mentioned Nic Sedgett 's name , and said : `` Look over his right temple he 's got my mark a second time . '' Hanging by his bedside , Mrs. Boulby strung together , bit by bit , the history of that base midnight attack , which had sent her glorious boy bleeding to her . Nic Sedgett ; she could understand , was the accomplice of one of the Fairly gentlemen ; but of which one , she could not discover , and consequently set him down as Mr. Algernon Blancove . By diligent inquiry , she heard that Algernon had been seen in company with the infamous Nic , and likewise that the countenance of Nicodemus was reduced to accept the consolation of a poultice , which was confirmation sufficient . By nightfall Robert was in the doctor 's hands , unconscious of Mrs. Boulby 's breach of agreement .