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I dare not ask Graham to see him. There is nothing to be done but to hope for the best. If this miserable man speaks out, I shall be ruined. Dr Pendle quite expected ruin, for he had no hope that a coarse and cruel criminal would be honourable enough to hold his tongue. But this belief, although natural enough, showed how the bishop misjudged the man.
Cargrim, who was too much of a sneak to feel honourable scruples, went through these carefully, but in spite of all his predisposition to malignity was unable to find any grounds for suspecting Dr Pendle to be in any serious trouble.
'I must answer myself, I see, continued Dr Pendle, after a short silence; 'you thought that because I met Jentham on the heath to pay him some money I murdered him in the viciousness of my heart. Why should you think so ill of me, my poor boy? Have I not stood in the place of your father? Have I not treated you as my own son? You know that I have.
'I don't want religion, I tell 'ee, said Mosk, drying his eyes; 'I've lived bad and I'll die bad. 'Mosk! Mosk! even at the eleventh hour 'That's all right, Mr Pendle; I know all about th' 'leventh hour, and repentance and the rest of th' rot. Stow it, sir, and listen. You'll keep true to my gal? 'On the honour of a gentleman. I love her; she is as dear to me now as she ever was.
I never saw it coming up. It will be uncommonly awkward to get out of it. What a shame of old Pendle Tor to play us such a trick!" "Will it soon blow over, do you think?" asked Irene. "I don't know," replied Meta rather gravely. "Sometimes the clouds stay on these moors for days and days together. I wish we had noticed it sooner, and gone down to the road again before we were surrounded.
A further search showed Mr Cargrim that the Beorminster cheque-book had been left behind. 'Hum! said the chaplain again, 'that man must have gone back to London. Dr Pendle is going to meet him there and draw money from his Town bank to pay what he demands. I'll have a look at the butts of that cheque-book when it comes back; the amount of the cheque may prove much.
'I should think not! growled Tinkler, wrathfully. 'Bishops don't murder tramps in England, whatever they may do in the South Seas! and he made a third note, 'Memo. To ask his lordship if he lost a pistol. 'As Captain George Pendle is a soldier, Mr Inspector, I fancied on the testimony of the initials that the pistol might belong to him.
The lightning blazed, the thunder rattled among the overhanging rocks, and the swollen stream of Pendle Water roared at their feet. Blackadder was left under the care of the two Alsatians, but while they had shielded their eyes from the glare of the lightning, he threw open the window, and, springing through it, made good his retreat.
It was poorly furnished, but it was scrupulously clean; and from the window Lucy's delighted eyes caught a glimpse of the broad green meadow, the shining water of the river, and beyond, the houses of the town nestling in the shadow of the giant slopes of Pendle Peak.
'Near it, said he, 'but not quite what I mean. The missing word will be told when we are on our honeymoon. In this way the matter was arranged, and Mab, as Miss Bosvile, was married to Captain Pendle on the self-same day, at the self-same hour, that Lucy became Lady Brace.
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