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But surely, comrades, some one who is grievously hurt hath passed along this road before us." All along the woodland track there did indeed run a scattered straggling trail of blood-marks, sometimes in single drops, and in other places in broad, ruddy gouts, smudged over the dead leaves or crimsoning the white flint stones. "It must be a stricken deer," said John.
The mediaeval and English relics, however, interested me more, such as the golden and enamelled George worn by Sir Thomas More; or the embroidered shirt of Charles I., the very one, I presume, which he wore at his execution. There are no blood-marks on it, it being very nicely washed and folded.
"You seem to have badly wounded one of them, for the others carried him bleeding to the water-side, as we have seen from his blood-marks on the rock: they have gone, as they apparently must have come, by boat. Sit down, Olivia." His daughter had entered. She had hurriedly coiled her hair up, and the happy carelessness of it pleased Montaiglon's eye like a picture.
He had bolted for good, vanished into the mysterious deeps of the primeval forest, whether hurt unto death, or merely "nipped" in a fore-leg, as Herb inclined to think, nobody knew. "It's too dark to see blood-marks, if there are any, so we can't trail him to-night.
Of course it was argued on the other side that the blood-marks on her dress might have been caused by her kneeling down by her husband when she rushed out of her room; but there was the open door below, and the fact that the fingermarks in the staircase all pointed upward.
Then he discovered that the snow was speckled with dots of black, and, stooping down, discerned that they were drops of blood. Some of the blood-marks were fresh; the tracks themselves had been made, perhaps, within the last three hours. Spurling must have met with an accident, and, returning to the Point for help, had seen the stranger's dogs and sledge, and turning northwards again had fled.
Up the stone steps from the narrow door by which he had entered, glided the white-clad figure of Lady Arabella, the only colour to be seen on her being blood-marks on her face and hands and throat. Otherwise, she was calm and unruffled, as when earlier she stood aside for him to pass in through the narrow iron door.
And next this is an index of despotic hate, for the Polish sceptre is broken and flung aside. Near this stands the full-length portrait of the first Alexander; and at his feet are grouped captured flags of Hungary and Poland, some with blood-marks still upon them.
Angelo was scored with blood-marks. Feeling that he dared not offer another chance to a fellow so desperately close-dealing, Weisspriess thrust fiercely, but delayed his fatal stroke. Angelo stooped and pulled up a handful of grass and soft earth in his left hand. 'We have been longer about it than I expected, said Weisspriess.
The mediaeval and English relics, however, interested me more, such as the golden and enamelled George worn by Sir Thomas More; or the embroidered shirt of Charles I., the very one, I presume, which he wore at his execution. There are no blood-marks on it, it being very nicely washed and folded.
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