"I am innocent. As they
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approached the manor, she was permitted to peep her
head outside the chariot's front window. "
"It's all over with him by this time, master," replied Ben, turning the head of his
boat, and rowing swiftly towards the scene of strife; "but d—n him, he was the
chap as hit poor Bill Thomson just now, and I don't much care if he should be
food for fishes. . "
"Be handy, then," rejoined Terence, "or, I'll lose my share of the smart money. He often
wanted only to drive with her in the car, both of them
staring at the scenery in silence for hours. By some it was affirmed that a subterranean
communication existed between the thief-taker's abode and Newgate, by means
of which he was enabled to maintain a secret correspondence with the
imprisoned felons: by others, that an under-ground passage led to extensive
vaults, where such malefactors as he chose to screen from justice might lie
concealed till the danger was blown over. Why hadn't he gone on with the girl's
story? What instinct had stuffed it back into his throat? Why the inexplicable
impulse to hurry this rather pathetic derelict on his way?
CHAPTER XV
Previous to his illness, Spurlock's mind had been tortured by an appalling worry,
so that now, in the process of convalescence, it might be compared to a pool
which had been violently stirred: there were indications of subsidence, but there
were still strange forms swirling on the surface—whims and fancies which in
normal times would never have risen above sub-consciousness.
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