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She has bubbled the soldiers; they do not know him. And for aught I know he goes out and in, and no one is the wiser. And the game may be played as long as you please. But from to-day I am there." "You!" Hunt cried. "To be sure," Eubank answered, letting his ill-concealed triumph appear. "At the farm. I am the officer. Ah, would you? Mr. Hunt, back! Back, or I fire."
And then, as one of the soldiers appeared in the doorway, "Have you got him?" the apothecary cried eagerly. "Ay, ay," the man said. "But where is he?" "Hughes and Lort are bringing him." "Are they enough?" Eubank cried anxiously. "Plenty," the soldier answered with some scorn. "He made no fight." "I'll lay you caught him under her window?" Eubank returned, licking his lips.
The words were barely audible, for his courage, not his malice, failed him under her eyes. At any rate she did not understand. "To our house?" she said. "Yes," he answered, mouthing nervously, and looking his meanest, in his vain endeavour to appear at ease. Still she did not comprehend, and she looked to her father for light. "Mr. Eubank is quartered on us," he said grimly.
And there is a thousand guineas on his head!" Hunt gathered himself together. "Mr. Birkenhead," he said, "we are two to four, but say the word, and " "I'll say a word for you presently," the Jacobite answered with a quick look of acknowledgment, "where we are going. But first, to show Mr. Eubank that he is more lucky than he thinks, and has caught his pigeon as well as his crow.
When it came to closing time, "Your woman is not in," said one of the soldiers; and he looked at the girl. "Woman?" said Eubank, with meaning; "I have seen no woman." "She was here at midday," the man answered, without suspicion. Perhaps the girl had been expecting it, for she did not blench, though Eubank's eyes were on her face.
Setting his pistol down on the settle, he stood speechless, sallow, shaking with fear, such fear as almost stays the heart, yet leaves the brain working leaves the man created in God's image to be dragged out to his death, writhing and shrieking a sight to haunt brave men's memories. He was spared that, yet came near to it. "Mr. Eubank," said Birkenhead sternly, "you will come with me.
For the use of Eubank and the soldiers two pallets had been laid in a room on the farther side of the kitchen if they chose to use them; but with the door on the latch Hunt had a shrewd suspicion that they would sit up and watch.
But in the kitchen, of which the outer door stood wide open to the night, was only Eubank; who, without his wig, and with a pistol poised in his uncertain hand, had entrenched himself in the angle between the settle and the hearth. The smuggler, seeing no one else, vented his wrath on him. "You dog!" he cried. "Are honest men to be kept awake by such as you? What does this mean?"
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