My father has made every possible
inquiry, and offered large rewards; but has not been able to discover the slightest
trace of him. The night was now advancing, and the party began to think of separating. Descending the hollow, or rather excavation,—for it was an old disused clay-pit,
at the bottom of which the cottage was situated,—he speedily succeeded in
arousing the ancient sibyl, and having committed Edgeworth Bess to her care,
with a promise of an abundant reward in case she watched diligently over her
safety, and attended to her comforts till his return,—to all which Black Mary
readily agreed,—he departed with a heart lightened of half its load. It feels like too much gold-dust clutched in one’s hand. But two weeks later he
returned. "Och! he's a broth of a boy!"
"Why, I thought he'd broken your head, Terry?"
"Phooh! that's nothing? A piece o' plaster'll set all to rights; and Terry
O'Flaherty's not the boy to care for the stroke of a supple-jack. "
"Pearls!"
"Sounds romantic, eh? Well, forty years ago the pearl game hereabouts was
romantic; but there's only one real pearl region left—the Persian Gulf. “Please call me Carol. Kneebone, having been alarmed by something in the widow's
look before her feelings found vent in the manner above described, thrust his
hand instinctively into his coat in search of his pocket-book,—about the security
of which, as it contained several letters and documents implicating himself and
others in the Jacobite plot, he was, not unnaturally, solicitous,—and finding it
gone, he felt certain he had been robbed. Here you are, young,
sound, with a heart that will recover in no time, provided you keep liquor out of
it. She shuddered. “So, Rhea must have known you for what you are. ‘Also that it was that you did not wish the
French connection. The fact is I was so glad to
see you again that it never occurred to me that a little discretion might be
advisable.
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