”
She shocked him by that. The
chair was torture. A glance down the passage—to see that
Roding was not lurking?—and her face came back to Gerald, triumph in her
eyes. He had not proceeded far when
he was alarmed by the tramp of a horse, which seemed to be rapidly
approaching, and he had scarcely time to leap the hedge and conceal himself
behind a tree, when a tall man, enveloped in an ample cloak, with his hat pulled
over his brows, rode by at full speed. It is bad
policy. Not like my father. The next instant, he was launched into eternity!
Scarcely had he been turned off a moment, when a man with swarthy features
leapt into the cart with an open clasp-knife in his hand, and, before he could be
prevented, severed the rope, and cut down the body. “Listen, Annabel,” he said hoarsely. They
used the rope—not that a rope was at all necessary, but because Ann Veronica’s
exalted state of mind made the fact of the rope agreeably symbolical; and,
anyhow, it did insure a joint death in the event of some remotely possibly
mischance. Come along, master.
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