The procession had just got into line of march, when a dreadful groan, mixed with yells, hootings, and execrations, was heard. ‘What do you mean to do with her?’ ‘Just keep her talking, that’s all,’ Gerald said quickly. He had now reached the adjoining house, and, scaling the roof, approached another building, which seemed to be, at least, one story loftier than its neighbours. A moment more and he would have been crushed beneath the ponderous board, when a slight but strong arm arrested its descent. "Fool!" he cried, "do you think I wouldn't have secured you before this if I hadn't some motive for my forbearance?" "And that motive is fear," replied Jack contemptuously. ‘That rascally knave sent you to become a French nun?’ Looking positively terrified, the girl nodded dumbly. ’ ‘Ain’t it? Want me to give you some time with her? Not that I think she’ll tell you anything. By-the-bye, do you recognize that?” Anna looked and gasped. Men had tried that before, but never until now had they been quick enough. Kneebone, having been alarmed by something in the widow's look before her feelings found vent in the manner above described, thrust his hand instinctively into his coat in search of his pocket-book,—about the security of which, as it contained several letters and documents implicating himself and others in the Jacobite plot, he was, not unnaturally, solicitous,—and finding it gone, he felt certain he had been robbed. Why should WE hoard? We aren’t going out presently, like Japanese lanterns in a gale. She had need of a devoted cavalier and Jack had proved eminently valuable.
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