“I beg your pardon,” he said, “but you appear to be a fellow countrywoman of
mine, and in some distress. But the sheer immensity of the tract! James Boyle
was certainly up against it, hard. “It may not be
just and so forth, but, after all, it is how things are. What happened between Ruth and her father that made him hurry
off without passing ordinary courtesies with me?"
"I suppose I ought to tell you," said Spurlock; "but it is understood that Ruth
shall never know the truth. In any
event, I brought her to the convent and we had her locked up separately, and told
’em both they’d be taken into custody as soon as Valade was fit to go. "
"I don't care for that," replied Jack. At the
open door stood a young man in a rich garb with a mask on his face, who was
encouraging the mob by words and gestures. But he had scarcely advanced a step, when he was felled to the
ground by a blow from the powerful arm of Kneebone, who, instantly possessing
himself of a pistol, levelled it at Jackson's head. . On the right, stood a bulky figure, with a
broken rattle hanging out of his great-coat pocket, who held up a lantern to his
battered countenance to prove to the spectators that both his orbs of vision were
darkened: on the left, a meagre constable had divested himself of his shirt, to
bind up with greater convenience a gaping cut in the arm. "By George!" he exclaimed.
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