He rang the doorbell, even though she had already cracked the door for him. I only wish he was not a Papist and a Jacobite. "If so, I may as well execute my warrant. Very dark, like yours, ma’am. She would be enduing this chap with attributes he did not possess, clothing him in fictional ruffles. He had not proceeded far when he was alarmed by the tramp of a horse, which seemed to be rapidly approaching, and he had scarcely time to leap the hedge and conceal himself behind a tree, when a tall man, enveloped in an ample cloak, with his hat pulled over his brows, rode by at full speed. I am five-and-thirty, and I have knocked about in the world and tasted the quality of life. "A thousand pounds," he observed, gloomily, "is a heavy price to pay for doubtful secrecy, when certain silence might be so cheaply procured. Why hadn't he gone on with the girl's story? What instinct had stuffed it back into his throat? Why the inexplicable impulse to hurry this rather pathetic derelict on his way? CHAPTER XV Previous to his illness, Spurlock's mind had been tortured by an appalling worry, so that now, in the process of convalescence, it might be compared to a pool which had been violently stirred: there were indications of subsidence, but there were still strange forms swirling on the surface—whims and fancies which in normal times would never have risen above sub-consciousness. There was a Greyhound bus that she was overdue to ride.
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