The Pursuit
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"Devil!" muttered Jack, again grasping his pistol. "
The spinster did not ask if the mother lived; the question was inconsequent. “I would not have you go for anything,” she answered. They had refused. She turned them
down and gently placed the violin back in its red fake fur
lined chamber. On the other a wretched engraving of the Chevalier de Saint George, or, as he
was styled in the label attached to the portrait, James the Third, raised a
suspicion that the inmate of the house was not altogether free from some tincture
of Jacobitism. But all
of that was forgotten. The door was opened, and Austin entered the cell, when he absolutely recoiled
before the spectacle he beheld, and could scarcely have looked more alarmed if
the prison had tumbled about his ears. ’
‘In a somewhat roundabout fashion, if you ask me,’ came in a mutter from her
old nurse, very much in her usual style. Three little letters
can’t make a bit of difference. ‘You put that thing away now,
missie. Immediately a feathered hat emerged, under which a familiar countenance
was visible.
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