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Avon's pursuit of the other troublesome animal withdrew all attention from him, and there was no certainty of the manner of his disappearance, which, to say the least, was extraordinary. But the absence of Captain Shirril forbade that the cowboys should waste time in idleness.
"Twice have I molded an image, And thrice outstretched my hand; Made one of day and one of night, And one of the salt sea strand One in a Judean manger, And one by Avon's stream; One over against the mouths of Nile, And one in the Academe."
These learned, he returned home; and the next day presented Sir Maurice with a scroll, containing the following lines: "Twenty times shall Avon's tide In chains of glistening ice be tied Twenty times the woods of Leigh Shall wave their brunches merril In spring burst forth in mantle gay, And dance in summer's scorching ray: Twenty times shall autumn's frown, Wither all their green to brown And still the child of yesterday Shall laugh the happy hour away.
These tiny syllables look large; They'll fret your wide, bewildered eyes; But "Is the cat upon the mat?" Is passport to the skies. For, yet awhile, and you shall turn From Mother Goose to Avon's swan; From Mary's lamb to grim Khayyam, And Mancha's mad-wise Don. You'll writhe at Jean Valjean's disgrace; And D'Artagnan and Ivanhoe Shall steal your sleep; and you shall weep At Sidney Carton's woe.
A lace ruffle was found in the dead man's grasp and the ruffle was Lord Avon's. Some papers were found charred in the grate and the papers were Lord Avon's. Oh, my poor friend, in what moment of madness did you come to do such a deed?" The light had gone out of my uncle's eyes and the extravagance from his manner.
"It was crimson," said he, with a shudder "crimson with black cracks, and from every crack but I will give you dreams, sister Mary. Suffice it that we rushed up the stair which led direct to the Captain's room, and there we found him lying with the bone gleaming white through his throat. A hunting-knife lay in the room- -and the knife was Lord Avon's.
Childric saw this, and gan him to turn, and bent him over the Avon, to save himself. And Arthur approached to him, as if it were a lion, and drove them to the flood, there many were slain; they sunk to the bottom five-and-twenty hundred, so that all Avon's stream was bridged with steel! Childric over the water fled, with fifteen hundred knights; he thought forth to push, and sail over the sea.
Again, I reflected that many of those who knew my brother had passed away, that all the facts need not come out, and that my death whilst under the suspicion of such a crime would cast a deeper stain upon our name than the sin which he had so terribly expiated. For these reasons " The tramp of several heavy footsteps reverberating through the old house broke in suddenly upon Lord Avon's words.
Then the Texan led the way inside, adjusting the bar in place so that no one could enter without permission. The extra horse which Avon had ridden to the cabin was turned loose in the bush, to be recovered and used by the captain when he wished to ride to the camp. Ballyhoo had removed the saddle and bridle, which lay in the corner where Avon's had awaited him.
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