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Henry was still going on with warmth and volubility about the Cairnhope folk, their good hearts, and their superstitions, when a visitor was announced. "Mr. Coventry." Henry stopped in the middle of a sentence. Grace brightened up, and said she was at home. Mr.
Amboyne brought the bad news from Cairnhope; and now, instead of soothing and consoling her son, she needed those kind offices from him; and, I am happy to say, she received them. He never spent an evening away from her. Unfortunately he did not succeed in keeping up her spirits, and the sight of her lowered his own.
Yet it was close at hand, and from two distinct quarters. Four men, with crape masks, and provided with all manner of tools, and armed with bludgeons, were creeping about the churchyard, examining and listening. Their orders were to make Little so that he should not leave Cairnhope for a month. And that, in plain English, meant to beat him within an inch of his life, if not kill him.
"Why, Abel, what is Cairnhope old church to you? You were born in an other parish." Abel slapped his thigh. "Ay, lass, and another county, if ye go to that." And his countenance brightened suddenly. "And as for me," continued Janet, "I'm Cairnhope; but my mother came from Morpeth, a widdy: and she lies within a hundred yards of where I sit a talking to thee.
"There is but one way, Little must be made so that he can't leave Cairnhope while Simmons is alive." So important did the crisis appear to him, that he insisted on Parkin going with him at once to Cairnhope, to reconnoiter the ground. Parkin had a gig and a fast horse: so, in ten minutes more, they were on the road.
This announcement set all staring; and George the blacksmith did but utter the general sentiment when, suddenly dropping his assumed character of King George, he said, "Bless us and save us! True Christmas Eve; and Cairnhope old church alight!" Then there was a furious buzz of tongues, and, in the midst of it Mr.
On the twenty-fourth of December Miss Carden and Jael Dence drove to Cairnhope village, and stopped at the farm: but Nathan and his eldest daughter had already gone up to the Hall; so they waited there but a minute or two to light the carriage lamps, and then went on up the hill. It was pitch dark when they reached the house. Inside, one of Mr.
"Well then, on that understanding the man works all night in a deserted church at Cairnhope; it is all up among the hills." Grotait turned red. "Are you sure of this?" "Quite sure?" "You have seen him?" "Yes." "Has he a forge?" "Yes; and bellows, and quantities of molds, and strips of steel. He is working on a large scale." "It shall be looked into, sir, by the proper persons.
"You may," said Jael, and turned the conversation to Patty's approaching marriage; once launched in that direction, it flowed without intermission till the men returned, and dinner smoked upon the board. After dinner Henry watched an opportunity, and slipped out into the yard, got the tools out, put his great-coat over them, and away to Cairnhope Church.
Little received the communication in a way that both surprised and encouraged him. She was as willing to outwit the Unions, as she was willing to resist them openly; and Henry found her an admirable coadjutor. Had she known where Henry had set up his forge, she would have been very unhappy. But he merely told her it was in a secluded place, near Cairnhope, where he could never be detected.
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