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Archibald, And his stopping away?" "Suspicious circumstances, I grant. Still, I have good cause to doubt. At the time it happened, some dandy fellow used to come courting Afy Hallijohn in secret; a tall, slender man, as he is described to me, bearing the name of Thorn, and living at Swainson. Could it have been one of the Thorn family?" "Mr.
At this moment the bells of another church, not St. Jude's, broke out in a joyous peal, and the earl inclined his ear to listen. "What can they be ringing for?" he cried. They were ringing for a wedding. Afy Hallijohn, by the help of two clergymen and six bridesmaids, of which you may be sure Joyce was not one, had just been converted into Mrs. Joe Jiffin.
Why, that's the girl Tom Herbert was telling me about who what was it? disappeared after her father was murdered." "Murdered in his own cottage almost in Afy's presence murdered by by " Mr. Carlyle recollected himself; he had spoken more impulsively than was his custom. "Hallijohn was my father's faithful clerk for many years," he more calmly concluded.
"You don't imagine I am going to walk through West Lynne with your hand upon me!" "I'll take it off, Miss Hallijohn, if you'll give a promise not to bolt. You see, 'twould come to nothing if you did, for I should be up with you in a couple of yards; besides, it would be drawing folks' attention on you. You couldn't hope to outrun me, or be a match for me in strength."
My impression was, that he put them on to dazzle Afy. She told me once that she could be a grander lady, if she chose, than I could ever make her. 'A lady on the cross, I answered, 'but never on the square. Thorn was not a man to entertain honest intentions to one in the station of Afy Hallijohn; but girls are simple as geese."
Afy Hallijohn was sailing up the street in its beams, finer and vainer than ever. She encountered Mr. Carlyle. "So, Afy, you are really going to be married at last?" "Jiffin fancies so, sir. I am not sure yet but what I shall change my mind. Jiffin thinks there's nobody like me. If I could eat gold and silver, he'd provide it; and he's as fond as fond can be.
"Curse him doubly if he be the double villain. But why should you scruple Mr. Carlyle? Most men, wronged as you have been, would leap at the opportunity for revenge." "For the crime perpetrated upon Hallijohn I would pursue him to the scaffold. For my own wrong, no. But the remaining negative has cost me something.
I leaped up the two steps, and fell over the prostrate body of Hallijohn. He was lying dead within the door. My gun, just discharged, was flung on the floor, its contents in Hallijohn's side." You might have heard a pin drop in court, so intense was the interest. "There appeared to be no one in the cottage, upstairs or down. I called to Afy, but she did not answer.
Levison had carelessly let fall from his pocket, and returned them to him. Both the notes were addressed "Captain Thorn." But they had not been through the post, for there was no further superscription on them; and the writing looked like a lady's. He remembered quite well hearing of the murder of Hallijohn, the witness added, in answer to a question; it made a great stir through out the country.
Her sight failed; her head reeled; her very heart turned to sickness. One struggling cry of pain; and, for the second time that day, Afy Hallijohn fell forward in a fainting fit. Shouts, hisses, execrations, yells! The prisoners were being brought forth, to be conveyed to Lynneborough.
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