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"List!" cries the old Pedlar, suddenly breaking off in the middle of one of his daintiest ravings "List! I heard, From yon huge breast of rock, a solemn bleat; Sent forth as if it were the Mountain's voice! As if the visible Mountain made the cry! Again!"
At this moment, a pale, sickly-looking female, aided, or rather supported, by the Pedlar and Hanlon, was in the act of approaching the place where Dalton's attorney stood, as if to make some communication to him, when a scream was heard, followed by the exclamation "Blessed Heaven! it's himself! it's himself!"
Even the egg pedlar seemed a delightful person because he brought news of Sylvia her social popularity, her professional success, the love and admiration she had won already. The Old Lady never dreamed of revealing herself to Sylvia. That, in her poverty, was not to be thought of for a moment.
I turned sharply round; and, seated upon the sward, was a man, apparently of the pedlar profession; a large deal box was lying open before him; a few articles of linen, and female dress, were scattered round, and the man himself appeared earnestly occupied in examining the deeper recesses of his itinerant warehouse. A small black terrier flew towards me with no friendly growl.
On the one hand the unlicensed trader and whiskey pedlar, the bane of the contractor and engineer; on the other hand the tourist, the capitalist, and the speculator, whom engineers and contractors received with welcome or with scant tolerance, according to the letters of introduction they brought from the great men in the East.
The pedlar turned his terrified, cowardly eyes upon Hulda, and sank lower and lower. The people were too frightened to move. "Stop, child," cried her mother. "Oh, he will go down and drag thee with him." But Hulda would not and could not let go. The pedlar had now sunk up to his waist.
We had a little conversation but for the most part drank tea, smoked pipes and talked sometimes to our host, a Russianised Finn or to the pedlar who used to hang about the battery selling "fi-ine oranges and lemons," a charming and lively person who in addition to other talents could play the guitar and used to tell us of the unhappy love which he cherished in his young days for the daughter of a policeman.
Then there is a quilted calamanco coat, and a pair of stockings I bought of the pedlar, and my straw-hat with blue strings; and a remnant of Scots cloth, which will make two shirts and two shifts, the same I have on, for my poor father and mother.
"There is one robber story, however, that illustrates the extraordinary manner in which a clue to a murder can sometimes be acquired. A pedlar was passing in a lonely hollow of a road on a heath in Jutland, when two robbers attacked him, and killed him under circumstances of great cruelty.
"I hear that the old hag, Durden, had a quarrel with the pedlar the day before his death," answered Stanley, "and she told him to his face that he would come to no gentle end." "They have often quarrelled," added Margaret, who felt bound to add something to her lover's statement. "Yes, then," said Sir George, "I have it now. I guessed it was her from the very beginning."
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