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There will be plenty of time, and perhaps better opportunity, gentlemen. I bid you good day." And with provoking coolness, he then moved towards the door, and quitted the room. "Remain here," said Marchdale; "I will follow him, and see that he quits the premises." He did so, and the young men, from the window, beheld Sir Francis walking slowly across the garden, and then saw Mr.
Let us see." Marchdale lifted up the head, and disclosed such a mass of clotted-looking blood, that Tom Eccles at once took to his heels, nor stopped until he was nearly as far off as the ruins. Marchdale followed him more slowly, and when he came up to him, he said, "The slugs have taken effect on his face." "I know it I know it. Don't tell me." "He looks horrible." "And I am a murderer." "Psha!
Chillingworth, "to make your opinions, or the expression of them, dependent upon any certain locality." "I know not what to think," said Henry; "I am bewildered quite. Let us now come away." Mr. Marchdale replaced the lid of the coffin, and then the little party moved towards the staircase. Henry turned before he ascended, and glanced back into the vault.
Before I finally decide, I will again consult with Mr. Marchdale. His opinion will weigh much with me." "And in good time, here he comes across the garden," said George, as he looked from the window of the room in which they sat. It was Mr. Marchdale, and the brothers warmly welcomed him as he entered the apartment. "You have been early afoot," said Henry. "I have," he said.
Charles was but too happy once more to look upon the open sky, although it was then in darkness, to heed anything that Marchdale, in the agony to which he was now reduced, might feel inclined to say; and, after glancing around him for some few moments, when he was free of the ruins, and inhaling with exquisite delight the free air of the surrounding meadows, he saw, by the twinkling of the lights, in which direction the town lay, and knowing that by taking a line in that path, and then after a time diverging a little to the right, he should come to Bannerworth Hall, he walked on, never in his whole life probably feeling such an enjoyment of the mere fact of existence as at such a moment as that of exquisite liberty.
"Sir," said Henry, "you have not had brought before you, painfully, as we have, all the circumstances upon which we, in a manner, feel compelled to found this horrible belief. At first incredulity was a natural thing. We had no idea that ever we could be brought to believe in such a thing." "That is the case," added Marchdale.
He then made to himself much the same remark that Sir Francis Varney had made to Marchdale, with respect to the brightening up of the sky, in consequence of its being near the time for the moon to rise from the horizon, and he saw more clearly around him, although he could not find any good place to hide the handkerchiefs in.
"We can make short work of this," said Marchdale, "by only examining those leaden coffins which have lost the plates from off their outer cases. There do not appear to be many in such a state." He then, with another light, which he lighted from the one that Henry now carried, commenced actively assisting in the search, which was carried on silently for more than ten minutes. Suddenly Mr.
"Would it be possible," asked Marchdale, "to get into that vault without exciting general attention?" "It would," said Henry; "the entrance to the vault is in the flooring of the pew which belongs to the family in the old church." "Then it could be done?" asked Mr. Chillingworth. "Most undoubtedly." "Will you under take such an adventure?" said Mr. Chillingworth. "It may ease your mind."
He had travelled much and seen much, and he had turned to good account all he had seen, so that not only was Mr. Marchdale a man of sterling sound sense, but he was a most entertaining companion.
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