”
She looked at him quizzically and shrugged. ‘Certainly this is true,’ she managed. Yon must be mine to-night. "
"A short man, isn't he, about your height, Sir,—with a yellow beard, and a face
as sly as a fox's?"
"Hem!" replied Wood, coughing slightly to conceal a smile; "the description's
not amiss. Couple of guineas to drink Captain Sheppard's speedy
escape. His business
has thriven; legacies have unexpectedly dropped into his lap; and, to crown all,
he has made a large fortune by a lucky speculation in South-Sea stock,—made it,
too, where so many others have lost fortunes, your humble servant amongst the
number—ha! ha! In a word, Sir, Mr. "
"I fancied I heard voices," rejoined Sir Rowland. . Are you sure you're not misinformed, Sir?"
"I was in the Lodge at the time," replied the jailer. The wine was
sweetened with cinnamon and cloves and rare edible
flowers, which her father had instructed her not to drink
excessively of. ’
‘You should be happy that you are not dead,’ she retorted, but with a
diminution of the venom and fright in her voice. He had often read about it, and once he had incorporated
it in a story, that invisible force which sent men to prison and to the gallows,
when a tongue controlled would have meant liberty indefinite.
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