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"Did I forget anything, Kathleen?" he inquired. "Let me see; no; sure I have my beads an' my tobaccy box, an' my two clane shirts an' handkerchers in the bundle. What is it, acushla?" "I needn't be axin' you, for I know you wouldn't forget it; but for 'fraid you might Owen, whin you're at Tubber Derg, go to little Alley's grave, an' look at it; an' bring me back word how it appears.
Would he consider, with his servant Pierre, that I had never done him any harm? Or would he I wondered, if they flung me out stark into some alley's gutter, whether M. le Comte would search for me and claim my carcass? Or would he, too, have fallen by the blades of the League? I was shuddering as I waited there in the darkness.
Laughing gayly, she offered no opposition, but, maintaining her embrace with both arms and walking somewhat sidewise, went willingly enough; and the three slowly crossed the yard, passed through the empty stable and out into the alley. When they reached the cross-street at the alley's upper end, Hedrick balked flatly. Laura expostulated, then entreated.
"It is most likely the watch." I paled at the thought, for the watch was the League's, and Lucas by all signs the League's tool. It might go hard with us if captured. "Go through the house, M. le Comte," I cried. "Quick, if you love your life! I'll keep them at the alley's mouth as long as I can." Not waiting for his answer, I rushed down the passage.
On they went, wonder gradually giving way to doubt, until with a muttered exclamation Frank came plump up against the wall that marked the alley's end. "Stung!" he murmured in profound disgust. His comrades gathered close about him. "That's one on us," muttered Tom. "We're done good and proper," agreed Billy. "Are you dead sure that you saw them come in?" queried Bart of Frank.
Peg Alley's Point is a long and narrow strip of wooded land, situated between the main stream of Miles river and one of the navigable creeks which flow into it. This little peninsula is about two miles long, from fifty to three hundred yards in width and is bounded by deep water and is overgrown with pine and thick underbrush.
In Alley, however, she had an able general to compete with a general who resolved, on the other hand, to make a sortie, as it were, and attack Nancy by a series of bold and unexpected manoeuvres. Nancy, on her part, having felt her first error touching Alley's complexion, resolved instantly to repair it by the substitution of a compliment in its stead.
She turned a white, frightened face towards the sofa where he lay the light from the alley's solitary lamp on the pavement above shone down through the window, and she saw that he had not moved. Why didn't the clock wake him? He was such a light sleeper! "Arvie!" she called; no answer. "Arvie!" she called again, with a strange ring of remonstrance mingling with the terror in her voice.
On swallowing it, it seemed to relieve her a little; she then looked up into Alley's face, with a smile of thanks so unutterably sweet and sorrowful, that the poor girl's tears gushed out afresh. "Take courage, my darling mistress," she replied; "I know that something painful has happened; but for Christ's blessed sake, don't look so sorrowful and broken-hearted, or you will "
I will send that villain's innocent wife to your aunt Alley's, where you now live'. I didn't expect to see you myself; but I got an opportunity, and besides she was too unwell to bring my message, which was to let you know what I now tell you." John, ere he replied, looked behind him at the Dead Boxer, and appeared as if struck with some sudden thought.
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