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I have not seen you for some little time." Kitty gave a wild glance round. Would not Sir John help her? Helen Dartmoor was the only person in the world that she truly disliked. She felt a restless sensation rising up in her heart, but there was no escape. Sir John had gone off with Mary Bateman and Mary's father. Florence and her mother had already vanished inside the house.
'We shall all have liberty enough now, said Scatterall; 'I wonder what they'll do with us; eh, Charley? 'I believe they will send the worst of us to Spike Island or Dartmoor prison, said Charley; 'but Mr. Snape, no doubt, has heard and can tell us. 'Oh, come, Charley! It don't do to chaff now, said a young navvy, who was especially down in the mouth.
Harry had alway been particularly fond of horses, and was an excellent rider; as a boy, indeed, he had often followed the staghounds over Dartmoor.
Indeed I don't think I had ever felt anything so nearly approaching complete serenity since my escape from Dartmoor. It is true that the tangle in which I was involved, appeared more threatening and complicated than ever, but one gets so used to sitting on a powder mine that the situation was gradually ceasing to distress me.
"We had an example of his readiness of resource that morning when he got away from us so successfully, and also of his audacity in sending back my own name to me through the cabman. From that moment he understood that I had taken over the case in London, and that therefore there was no chance for him there. He returned to Dartmoor and awaited the arrival of the baronet."
Tie this gentleman's hands behind his back, get the horses out, and we'll right away up into Dartmoor, find a good high tor, stand our ground there till morning, and then carry him into Okehampton to the nearest justice. If he chooses to delay me in my journey, it is fair that I should make him pay for it."
Why I shall bring him over here to talk to your father." "He'll be too fashionable for that; and papa won't trouble his head about him if he finds that he doesn't care for Dartmoor." "Then he may fall in love with you, my dear." "Well, yes; there's that resource at any rate, and for your sake I dare say I should be more civil to him than papa.
"I will take it to her in America," said the old man; and he hastily thrust the note into the breast of his coat, as the turnkey entered. Geoffrey thrust one of the gold pieces into the jailer's hand as he led him away. "You will be taken to Dartmoor Prison to-morrow," said the jailer, as if in reply.
I looked round rather forlornly. As an unpromising field for foraging in, a Dartmoor wood on a dark March morning takes a lot of beating. It is true that there was plenty of water the whole ground and air reeked with it but water, even in unlimited quantities, is a poor basis for prolonged exertion. There was nothing else to be got, however, so I had to make the best of it.
The only remark we would make upon it here, is, that Dartmoor has a dismal idea associated with it and that was sufficient to make our people conceive of it as a place doleful as a coal-pit.
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