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If not, he should take her back to the infirmary, or into his own house; for he had a great respect for her, and indeed for all her family. He drove fast, but he could see nothing of her on the road. So then he went on to Cairnhope. He stopped at the farm-house. It was sadly deteriorated in appearance. Inside he found only an old carter and his daughter. The place was in their charge.
Pistols he had: but, from a wretched over-security, he had never brought them to Cairnhope Church. Oh, it was an era of agony that minute, in which, after avoiding the ambuscade that he felt sure awaited him at the door, he had nothing on earth he could do but wait and see what was to come next.
Others are elastic; they give way, and appear crushed; but, let the immediate pressure be removed, they fly back again, and their enemy finds he has not gained an inch. Henry's was of this sort; and, as he swung along through the clear brisk air, the world seemed his football once more. This same morning Jael Dence was to go to Cairnhope, at her own request.
He and two more were to go to Cairnhope, and DO Little. He was to avoid all those men who had lately stood at the door with him, and was to choose for his companions Simmons the grinder, and one Sam Cole, a smooth, plausible fellow, that had been in many a dark job, unsuspected even by his wife and family, who were respectable.
He came home pale and disturbed, and sat by the fireside in dead silence. "What ails thee, my man?" said Janet, his wife; "and there's the very dog keeps a whimpering." "What ails us, wife? Pincher and me? We have seen summat." "What was it?" inquired the woman, suddenly lowering her voice. "Cairnhope old church all o' fire inside." "Bless us and save us!" said Janet, in a whisper.
Men had been lost on Cairnhope before to-day, and never found alive: and they were lost on Cairnhope; buried in the sinuosities of the mountain, and in a tremendous snowstorm. They wandered and staggered, sick at heart; since each step might be for the worse. They wandered and staggered, miserably; and the man began to sigh, and the woman to cry.
She talked to him, and got the short answers of an absent man. But she continued to make her little remarks occasionally, and, ere they reached Cairnhope, he found himself somehow soothed by her sex, her beauty, and her mellow, kindly voice. As they drove up to the farm-house, he told her to hide her face a moment, for they didn't know who it was. Martha ran out.
So, to make amends, he said, "Didn't I promise to take you to Cairnhope?" "Ay," said Jael; and she beamed and blushed in a moment. "Well, I must go there, Sunday at the latest. So I will come for you, if you like. Will you be ready at ten o'clock?" "Yes." "I'll bring a gig, and take you like a lady." "Anyway you please. I'd as lieve walk as ride." "I prefer riding.
She was neatly dressed, and had a plain shepherd's-plaid shawl, that suited her noble bust. She looked a picture of health and happiness. "If you please, miss, he is come to take me to Cairnhope." "Oh! is it for that? And I declare you expected him, too." "Yes," said Jael, and blushed. "You never told me," said Grace, with a light touch of asperity.
"Since you are at Cairnhope how strange that seems pray go and see the old church, where your forefathers are buried. There are curious inscriptions, and some brasses nobody could decipher when I was a girl; but perhaps you might, you are so clever. Your grandfather's monument is in the chancel: I want you to see it. Am I getting very old, that my heart turns back to these scenes of my youth?
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