She caught her breath, and her
eyes were lit with a sudden terror. "
"Sir Rowland," said Jonathan, turning to the knight, "will it please you to remain
here till I return, or will you accompany us?"
"I will go with you," answered Trenchard, who, by this time, had regained his
composure, and with it all his relentlessness of purpose. ’
‘And was not she put out?’ demanded Miss Froxfield with a tinkling laugh. And then suddenly—a relief. A skeleton was propped against the mantelpiece. Covering his face with a crape mask, and taking the candle
from his associate, Jack entered the room; and, pistol in hand, stepped up to the
bed, and approached the light to the eyes of the sleepers. ‘What is it?’
‘Er—shouldn’t I tell—I mean, the young lady, sir—’
‘You can leave the young lady to me. The Wastrel—as we call him—cannot play when he's
sober; hands too shaky. “By-the-bye,” he said, presently, “your sister was married to old Ferringhall the
other day, wasn’t she? I saw the notice in the papers. She had trouble outwitting him as he
seemed to predict her words before he said them. 27
Her beloved mother Marina was the first in the house
to catch it, the first to die. "
"I can avenge her," cried Jack in a terrible tone.
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