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Podge Byerly took the note and found in a woman's handwriting these words: "Mr. Duff Salter, I suppose you know where you are. Your hostesses are very insinuating and artful and what else, you can find out! One man has been murdered in that family; another has disappeared. They say in Kensington the house of Zane is haunted. Podge read the note, and her tears dropped upon it.
Anonymous letters continued to come in almost by every mail, making charges and imputations upon Agnes, and frequently connecting Podge Byerly with her. Terrible epithets such as "Murderess!" "A second Mrs. Chapman!" "Jezebel," etc. were employed in these letters. Many of them were written by female hands or in very delicate male chirography, as if men who wrote like women had their natures.
Without another word, Wilton instantly knocked him down with one blow of his clenched fist, and at the same moment he called out aloud, "Captain Byerly! and you constable, who are showing the way come back here, and take this man into custody, and bear witness that he refuses to search for the Jacobites in the way I order him. Constable, I shall want you to take him to town in custody this night.
They were now not far from High Halstow, and the rest of the way was soon accomplished. But as they passed into the door of the public-house, Captain Byerly, who came last, touched Wilton on the arm, and whispered, "Do you know that fellow is following you?" "No, indeed," answered Wilton: "what can be done?" "Go and speak to the master of the house," said Byerly, quickly.
Byerly, who understood what he was about, kept the Messenger at some distance behind; but, nevertheless, some sharp words passing between them reached Wilton's ear during the first quarter of an hour of their journey; then came a dogged silence; but at length the voice of Byerly was again heard, exclaiming, "Mr. Brown, Mr.
Podge Byerly was broken down and dangerously ill at her mother's little house. All of Agnes's callers had dropped off, and she felt that she could no longer worship, except as a show, at Van de Lear's church; but this deprivation only deepened Agnes's natural devotion.
"We'll have you set out!" screamed Podge, "like a piece of hale old willow, and you'll grow again!" Duff Salter frequently walked almost to her school with Podge Byerly, which was far down in the old city.
"You are right, you are right, sir," he said; "and then, I hear Byerly's voice speaking to the old woman." But before he could proceed to put Lord Sherbrooke's suggestion in execution, Byerly was in the room, holding up a large leathern bag, and exclaiming, "Here it is! here it is!" "Alas!" said Caroline "I fear dangerously obtained."
James's Street about the present blessed hour. Byerly and many others that are all very gentlemanlike but bless you, sir, they do it nothing like the Colonel, so I do not wish him to be wronged." "Of course not," answered Wilton; "but tell me, landlord, had he heard of this unfortunate business of the lady being carried off, before he went?"
The voice of Agnes was heard in hasty and anxious imploration: "For pity's sake, say no more. Be silent. Am I not bowed and wretched enough?" She came hastily to the fissure of the door and looked in, because Duff Salter just then sneezed tremendously: "Jericho-o-o-o! Jer-ry-cho-o-o!" Podge Byerly reappeared with a pack of cards and shuffled them before Duff Salter's face.
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