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He talked, too, of Campion, of his sermons on "The King who went a journey," and the "Hail, Mary"; and told him of the escape at Blainscow Hall, where the servant-girl, seeing the pursuivants at hand, pushed the Jesuit, with quick wit and courage, into the duck-pond, so that he came out disguised indeed in green mud and was mocked at by the very officers as a clumsy suitor of maidens.
So they passed over for the present his priestly functions and first demanded a list of all the places where he had stayed in the north. "You ask what is impossible," said Anthony, with his eyes on the ground and his heart beating sharply, for he knew that now peril was near. "Well," said Wade, "let us put it another way. We know that you were at Speke Hall, Blainscow, and other places.
In this manner they first visited many of the famous old Lancashire houses, some of which still stand, Borwick Hall, Hall-i'-the-Wood, Lydiate Hall, Thurnham, Blainscow, where Campion had once been so nearly taken, and others, all of which were provided with secret hiding-places for the escape of the priest, should a sudden alarm be raised.
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