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'We are a very small party, said Lord Embleton, 'only the Prince, my daughter, Father Riccoboni, Miss Willoughby, my sister, Scremerston, and you and I. Miss Willoughby came last week. In the mornings she and I are busy with the manuscripts. We have found most interesting things.
His host carried off Miss Willoughby to the muniment-room after breakfast; that was an advantage he had over Scremerston, who was decidedly restless and ill at ease.
Scremerston later took Logan to consult Fenwick, who visibly brightened at the idea of night-fishing. 'You must take one of those long landing-nets, Logan, said Scremerston. 'They are about as tall as yourself, and as stout as lance-shafts. They are for steadying you when you wade, and feeling the depth of the water in front of you. Scremerston seemed very pensive.
'Love rules the camp, the court, the grove, and Love deranged the accustomed order, for the Prince sat between Lady Alice and Logan. Opposite Logan, and at Lady Mary's left, was the Jesuit, and next him, Scremerston, beside whom was Miss Willoughby, on the Earl's right.
It was Scremerston, dead, in his night dress: poor plucky little Scremerston. Afterwards, before the trial, the Prince told Logan how matters had befallen. 'I was wakened, he said 'you were very late, you know, and we had all gone to bed I was wakened by a banging door. If you remember, I told you all, on the night of your arrival at Rookchester, how I hated that sound.
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