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Be sure that I played him a trick in the mean while." "What for?" asked Ned. "Self and servant." "The post-boys?" "Ay, I forgot them. Never mind, you, must frighten them." "Forwards!" cried Ned; and his horse sprang from his armed heel. "One moment," said Lovett; "I must put on my mask. Soho, Robin, soho! Now for it, forwards!"
Clifford did not answer, and the conversation made a sudden and long pause; Tomlinson broke it. "Do you know, Lovett," said he, "though I have as little heart as most men, yet I feel for you more than I could have thought it possible.
Having thus, as rapidly as we were able, traced the causes which brought so startlingly before your notice the most incomparable of critics, we now, reader, return to our robbers. "Hist, Lovett!" said Tomlinson, half asleep, "methought I heard something in the outer cave." "It is the Scot, I suppose," answered Clifford: "you saw, of course, to the door?"
Then came Serjeant Major Lovett in a small dug-out by himself, and near him Serjeant Bennett and the Regimental Police; the latter in trenches became general handy men, carrying rations, acting as gas sentries, and doing all the odd jobs. Round the corner a large dug-out with two entrances provided the Canteen with a home large enough to contain, when it was procurable, a barrel or two of beer.
One morning a packet was brought him which he found to contain a sum of money, the ring mentioned, and a letter from the notorious Lovett, in which that person in begging to return his lordship the sums of which he had twice assisted to rob him, thanked him, with earnest warmth, for the consideration testified towards him in not revealing his identity with Captain Clifford; and ventured, as a slight testimony of respect, to inclose the aforesaid ring with the sum returned.
William Lovett, the father of a large family, is one of the finest gentlemen anywhere around the whole country, and is much beloved by all who know him. The white people who board with him in the Summer time all liked him, for he was so nice and quiet. He has a large family of girls and boys and all are smart.
Why the deuce don't the police clear the country of such a movable species of trouble?" "Indeed, my lord, I don't know; but they say as how Captain Lovett, the famous robber, be one of the set; and nobody can catch him, I fear!" "Because, I suppose, the dog has the sense to bribe as well as bully. What is the general number of these ruffians?"
He cleared his throat, and thus addressed the foe: "You, sir, Captain Lovett, alias Howard, alias Jackson, alias Cavendish, alias Solomons, alias Devil, for I knows you well, and could swear to you with half an eye, in your clothes or without, you lay down your club there, and let me come alongside of you, and you'll find me as gentle as a lamb; for I've been used to gemmen all my life, and I knows how to treat 'em when I has 'em!"
A painter, desirous of stamping on his canvas the portrait of an upright judge, could scarcely have found a finer realization for his beau-ideal than the austere, collected, keen, yet majestic countenance of Sir William Brandon, such as it seemed in the trappings of office and from the seat of justice. The newspapers were not slow in recording the singular capture of the notorious Lovett.
As a precaution we mounted our Cossack on the trunk, but before we went a mile he fell from his perch in spite of his utmost efforts to cling to the vehicle. After that event he rode by the driver's side. On seeing Lovett at Stratensk my first question related to the condition of the road. "Horrid," said he. "The worst time to travel. There has been much rain and cold weather.
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