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Updated: May 17, 2025
"I may carry a spare weapon for you, I hope?" "Ah, you will go with me? Thank you: I shall be glad of someone to carry the lantern. We may have to do some scrambling: Narracott is infirm, and Roger," this was the footman "is a chicken-hearted fellow, I suspect." The two men armed themselves and went back to the hall, where Father Halloran in silence took the lantern from the butler.
When I learn what has happened I will bring you word." He strode away down the lower corridor, calling as he went to Narracott, the butler, to fetch a lantern and unbolt the hall-door, and entered the gunroom with Father Halloran at his heels. "I cannot ask you to take a hand in this," he said, finding his favourite gun and noiselessly disengaging it from the rack, pitch dark though the room was.
The Squire dined alone that night, and after dinner sat long alone before his library fire how long he scarcely knew; but Narracott, the butler, had put up the bolts and retired, leaving only the staircase-lantern burning, when Father Halloran knocked at the library door and was bidden to enter. "I wished to speak with you about Walter to learn your decision," he explained.
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