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Updated: June 29, 2025
It angered him to realize how easily it had been accomplished; not so much as a blow struck; no opportunity even for him to cry out an alarm only that dark cabin, and the threatening revolver shoved against his cheek. He wondered where McAdams was; perhaps hunting him even then on the pier; and Sexton, what had he succeeded in discovering out at Fairlawn?
I swear I have never knowingly met, or spoken to you since we drove to that cottage on Sunday. I cannot believe what you say." "Yet it is true, every word true"; he asserted stoutly. "Why else should I be here? You returned with us to 'Fairlawn, and we chatted together pleasantly all the way. Later you seemed to change, and discharged me rather rudely.
But Marion did not linger long in any one situation. Hearing that the British were about to send their wounded from Fairlawn to Charleston, his restless enterprise prompted him to aim at the capture of the detachment.
This army guy blew in here before dark, along with another fellow, Sexton, who used to be a servant out at Fairlawn you know him?" "Yes; he was discharged yesterday." "I was standing by the bar talking with Issy, and I was sure I knew this lad's face.
He had traversed more than two hundred miles of country, through a region held by the enemy; returned by the same route, delivered his prisoners to the care of Mayham, returned twenty miles below the Eutaw, in order to watch the communication between that place and Fairlawn then, at the call of Greene, made a circuit and passed the British army, so as to reach a position on the south side of the Santee, in the track of Greene's advance; and all this in the brief compass of six days.
Here is the letter: "MY DEAR HELEN: "I have not seen or heard of you during so long a time that I am simply dying to tell you all that is happening here. You will remember that some people named Anstruther bought the Fairlawn estate near our village some three years ago. They are, as you know, enormously rich.
Harkaway, standing, whip in hand, in the middle of the road, so as to prevent the enemy's huntsman passing by with his hounds. It was afterward declared that Mr. Harkaway had not been heard to curse and swear for the last fifteen years. "I'm d d if I don't!" said Mr. Fairlawn, riding up to him. Mr. Harkaway was ten years the older man, and looked as though he had much less of fighting power.
There was no reason except that Percival was in the way. That was why he was killed." "By Hobart?" "He may not have fired the shot, but I have no doubt he inspired it; and the job was so expertly done the coroner called it suicide. The way was open; you were a prisoner, and the false Natalie Coolidge safely installed as mistress of 'Fairlawn. No one apparently suspected anything wrong."
"You remember nothing of going back with us to 'Fairlawn'?" "Absolutely nothing." "Or of a conversation had with me later in the library?" "No, Captain West." He stared off into the black night, his lips pressed closely together. Could this be false? Could she sit there calmly, in the midst of such peril as surrounded them, and still deliberately endeavour to deceive?
Let's step in here where we can talk quietly." He pointed the way into a private card room, closing the door behind his visitor. "Take the seat over there, Sexton. You came in to see me from Fairlawn?" "No, sir, I didn't. The fact is, I'm not out there any longer." "Not there! What do you mean?" "I've been discharged, sir, with two other servants, since the funeral yesterday." "Discharged!
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