Horrors abounded in every passageway as each turn could bring a vision of a poor woman running from her screaming plague-infested son or a bloated corpse of a rich man whose mouth lolled open, showing gaps where someone had pried out a few golden teeth. Sheppard repressed the scream that rose to her lips, and both mother and son gazed with apprehension at the heavy figure of the thief-taker, which, viewed in the twilight, seemed dilated to twice its natural size, and appeared almost to block up the window. “Why not?” “Because you are mine. ” “You must admit,” he declared, “that to us—who had seen you—the thought of your trying anything else was amazing. They will say that it was murder. Wild was formerly an agent to the Jacobite party, but, on the offer of a bribe from the opposite faction, he unhesitatingly deserted and betrayed his old employers. I asked her to marry me, and she consented. ’ ‘Merci. As he anticipated, he was here comparatively screened from the fury of the wind; and when he gazed upon the roaring fall beneath him, visible through the darkness in a glistening sheet of foam, his heart overflowed with gratitude for his providential deliverance. Then he turned round and gazed thoughtfully at the particular spot in the fog where Courtlaw had disappeared. Then, as she was in the act of turning reluctantly away, she noticed a thin crack between the door and the frame. He was silent.
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