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He heard the shot from his place in the wood, and saw Thorn run, ghastly, trembling, horrified, from his wicked work. Believe me, it was Thorn who killed your father." Afy grew cold as she listened. That one awful moment, when conviction that his words were true, forced itself upon her, was enough to sober her for a whole lifetime. Thorn!
He had been shot in the side." Richard stopped for breath. Mr. Carlyle did not speak. "I called to Afy. No one answered. No one was in the lower room; and it seemed that no one was in the upper. A sort of panic came over me, a fear. You know they always said at home I was a coward: I could not have remained another minute with that dead man, had it been to save my own life.
Ball, who, being a bachelor, was ever regarded with much graciousness by Afy, for she kept her eyes open to contingencies; although Mr. Joe Jiffin was held in reserve. "They are both committed for wilful murder off to Lynneborough within an hour!" Afy's color rose. "What a shame! To commit two innocent men upon such a charge."
"But what an idiot he must be to venture here!" uttered Richard. "Here of all places in the world!" "He counts, no doubt, on not being known. So far as I can find out, Richard, nobody here did know him, save you and Afy. I shall put you in Mr. Dill's room you may remember the little window in it and from thence you can take a full view of Thorn, whom I shall keep in the front office.
How infinitely worse would her situation be if deserted, than mine is as her perpetual companion! The very thought makes my heart bleed. Yes! amiable, devoted, dearest Afy, I throw aside these morbid feelings; you shall never repent having placed your trust in me. I will be proud and happy of such a friend, and you shall be mine for ever! A shriek broke on the air: he started.
Though, as to 'reputable' however, I won't put you out further. You are wanted at the justice-room at three o'clock this afternoon. And don't fail, please." "Wanted at the justice-room!" retorted Afy. "I! What for?" "And must not fail, as I say," repeated Mr. Ebenezer. "You saw Levison taken up your old flame " Afy stamped her foot in indignant interruption.
"Yes, he did come courting her," returned Richard, in a savage tone. "Distance was no barrier. He would come galloping over at dusk, tie his horse to a tree in the wood, and pass an hour or two with Afy. In the house, when her father was not at home; roaming about the woods with her, when he was." "Come to the point, Richard to the evening."
If she went after anybody, it was after Thorn." "Was the man good-looking?" "I suppose the world would call him so. Afy thought such an Adonis had never been coined, out of fable. He had shiny black hair and whiskers, dark eyes and handsome features. But his vain dandyism spoilt him; would you believe that his handkerchiefs were soaked in scent?
This afternoon during that same harangue, Francis Levison was recognized by two witnesses to be the man Thorn the man who went after Afy Hallijohn. It is horrible." Lady Isabel sat and looked at Mrs. Carlyle. Not yet did she believe it. "Yes, it does appear to me as being perfectly horrible," continued Mrs. Carlyle.
He was standing in that half-circle where the trees have been cut. Now I knew that Bethel, if he had gone straight in the direction of the cottage, must have met Thorn quitting it. 'Did you encounter that hound? I asked him. 'What hound? returned Bethel. 'That fine fellow, that Thorn, who comes after Afy, I answered, for I did not mind mentioning her name in my passion.
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