For a time she looked at no more apartments, and walked through gaunt and
ill-cleaned streets, through the sordid under side of life, perplexed and troubled,
ashamed of her previous obtuseness. "Cease your confounded clutter!" said a young man, whose swarthy visage, seen
in the torchlight, struck Wood as being that of a Mulatto. CHAPTER I. He flung aside all his talk of help and disinterested friendship as though it had
never been even a disguise between them, as though from the first it was no
more than a fancy dress they had put quite understandingly upon their
relationship. ’
‘You may not get the chance. “It is not an easy matter,” he said, “for me to offer you an altogether adequate
explanation. Yet the fact remains that you do not
understand me at all. To be sure," he added, lowering his tone, "they wos little 'uns, and
one on 'em was smothered—ough! ough!—how this cough chokes me!"
Sheppard, meanwhile, whose hands were at liberty, managed to possess himself,
unperceived, of the spike of a halbert, which was lying, apart from the pole,
upon a bench near him. The very
blank, however, affected him more deeply than if it had been left. “GOOD CATCH, ALBERT!” A husky girl had
bayed as she witnessed the puck’s abrupt flight. ‘Do you swear it? There’s
no knowing if one can believe you. Recollect, he's chained to the ground by a great horse-padlock, and is
never unloosed except when he comes to that hatch. 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.
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