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Captain Roding looked frowningly from one to the other. McClintock sent his yacht over for
us this morning. “Do YOU go across the Park?”
“Not usually. So he liked to go by a different train. ToC
The ward into which Jack was endeavouring to break was called the Red Room,
from the circumstance of its walls having once been painted in that colour; all
traces of which had, however, long since disappeared. Bulging out more in the
middle than at the two extremities, it resembled an enormous cask set on its end,
—a sort of Heidelberg tun on a large scale,—and this resemblance was increased
by the small circular aperture—it hardly deserved to be called a door—pierced,
like the bung-hole of a barrell, through the side of the structure, at some distance
from the ground, and approached by a flight of wooden steps. He looked at his port wine as though
that tawny ruby contained the solution of the matter. I do not
intend to allow you to forget. And how comes his cloak on this knave's shoulders?"
"It is his cloak, of a surety," returned Rowland "Harkye, sirrah," continued he,
haughtily interrogating Wood; "where is the person from whom you received
this mantle?"
"Throttling a man isn't the way to make him answer questions," replied the
carpenter, doggedly. Their expression was so amiable, that it
would have redeemed a countenance a thousand times plainer than hers. Not only that, but he carried himself erect—
the slight slouch which had bent his shoulders had altogether disappeared. No, not one little bit. Cut it as short as you can.
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