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"Are you alone, Miss Fanny?" he asked, in a quick voice. "You did not come here alone?" "As you see me, Mr. Birch," said Frances, raising herself from her brother's arms, and turning an expressive glance towards the secret cavern, that the quick eye of the peddler instantly understood. "But why and wherefore are you here?" exclaimed her astonished brother; "and how knew you of this place at all?"
"They are, good old man; they are; I have seen them at work." "The Bagauders are, then, numerous armed troops?" "Karadeucq, my pet, do not excite yourself listen without interrupting." "Bad boy, he can only think of battles, revolts and adventures!" And the poor woman added in a low voice in Araim's ear: "Was there any occasion for the peddler to mention such matters before my son? Alas!
"Children!" exclaimed the peddler, "can I give to a family the infamy of my name?" The officer gazed at the strong emotion he exhibited with pain, and he made a slight movement towards the gold; but it was arrested by the expression of his companion's face. Harvey saw the intention, and shook his head, as he continued more mildly,
Brigaud came therefore to bid adieu to Madame Denis; he was going to attempt to reach Spain in the disguise of a peddler.
One of the pairs had been worn, and a button was missing. "These are the ones I was looking for," said the peddler, putting the gloves in his pocket. Then he continued: "Your mistress was rather fond of taking long walks by herself, wasn't she?" The girl's pale face flushed hotly and she stammered: "You know about it?" "You know about it also, I see. And did you know everything?"
By dint of a strong arm, however, it grew to the desired length, under the experienced eye of the peddler, who conscientiously added a ribbon of corresponding brilliancy with the calico; and Caesar hastily withdrew, to communicate the joyful intelligence to his aged partner.
They were then placed in separate corners of the room, and, under the muzzles of the muskets, required faithfully to answer such interrogatories as were put to them. "Where is your pack?" was the first question to the peddler. "Hear me," said Birch, trembling with agitation; "in the next room is my father, now in the agonies of death.
He still found time to read a great deal, to ride, and to take long, rambling walks, for, in spite of his limp, he was a great walker and could go twenty or thirty miles. Indeed he used to tramp the countryside so far and so long that his father would say he feared his son was born to be nothing better than a wandering peddler.
"And ye'll find no better brew than our own!" quoth Roger. "And that I'll swear to!" laughed the peddler. "Cram me wi' spiders else!"
"That is a sorter good joke," he said, his small eyes on Henley, "considering the man you mean it for, but as I stood thar hearin' you concoct it I couldn't help thinking if you knowed what a joke this self-same peddler had got off on you you'd not be exactly in the mood for fun at least not in the grave-rock line." "What joke are you talking about?"
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