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The florid, over-dressed chap who I told you was one of the cleverest thieves in town?" "I remember him. Crawshay his name turned out to be." "Well, it was certainly the name he was convicted under, so Crawshay let it be. You needn't waste any pity on HIM, old chap; he escaped from Dartmoor yesterday afternoon." "Well done!"
"It is rather fashionable to marry Americans just now, Uncle George." "I'll back English women against the world, Harry," said Lord Fermor, striking the table with his fist. "The betting is on the Americans." "They don't last, I am told," muttered his uncle. "A long engagement exhausts them, but they are capital at a steeplechase. They take things flying. I don't think Dartmoor has a chance."
There were several Mortimers, but only one who could be our visitor. I read his record aloud. "Mortimer, James, M.R.C.S., 1882, Grimpen, Dartmoor, Devon. House-surgeon, from 1882 to 1884, at Charing Cross Hospital. Winner of the Jackson prize for Comparative Pathology, with essay entitled 'Is Disease a Reversion? Corresponding member of the Swedish Pathological Society.
"Are there any lodgings to be had?" "The lady may have my place," chorused three eager voices, and every man in the room repeated the offer. She thanked them with a pretty smile and one comprehensive bow, and looked up at the Scholar for help. "I would offer you my hut if it were not such a wretched one. But, as it is, I should advise you to take this man's" and he pointed to Tommy Dartmoor.
He had not returned since, for on his release from Dartmoor he went to live near his pal, who was then planning the lay that had ended so disastrously. He pulled the bell and waited anxiously. A stout, slatternly woman appeared, and uttered a sharp exclamation at sight of her visitor. She would have closed the door in his face, but Hawker quickly thrust a leg inside. "None o' that," he growled.
The Duchy had long desired the land, for 'tis Duchy's rule to snap up the tenement farms as they fall in the market, and indeed few will soon remain in private possession; but for the minute the two brothers middle-aged bachelors both held on where their forefathers had worked before them time out of mind, and it looked almost as though they was going to be the last of the ancient name to resist the over-lord of Dartmoor; for men come and men go; but Duchy lasts for ever and, no doubt, will have all it wants to the last rood afore many years be past.
Had Gwendoline confided his movements to Elma? He had warned his daughter time and again not to mention the fact, "for fear of misapprehension," he said, with shuffling eyes askance. It was better nobody should know he had been anywhere near Dartmoor on the day of the accident. However, there was one consolation; the law! the law!
At seven years of age he was sent to herd a few sheep upon Dartmoor; before he was nine, he was placed as a parish apprentice to the owner of a tin mine, and buried from the light of heaven. Often and anxiously Lieutenant Morris wrote from India, inquiring after his sons. He sent presents love-gifts to each; but his letters were unheeded, his presents disregarded.
It was only those officers who refused to give their parole who were confined at Dartmoor, and most of the prisoners were seamen, or from the ranks. You ask me, perhaps, why it was that I did not give this parole, and so enjoy the same good treatment as most of my brother officers. Well, I had two reasons, and both of them were sufficiently strong.
There was no one in the place besides themselves, and here, among the falling leaves, and in a solitude as profound as on the top of a Dartmoor tor, Arnold told the story of his love again, and with greater coherence, though even more passion. "Oh," said Iris again, "how could you love me, Arnold how could you love any girl so? It is a shame, Arnold; we are not worth so much.
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