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Updated: June 3, 2025
"All right, Mas'r Harry," he said; "they're in the dark now; but I think Miss Lilla was disappointed because you didn't go. I'll keep watch if you'd like to go." If I'd like to go! I fought down the desire, though, just as a distant echoing murmur, ever increasing, fell upon our ears, and we knew that the searchers were on their way back.
Some one and I could put a name to him had devastated them as a cyclone does a town in the middle West. The wreckage lay everywhere, tossed hither and thither as the searchers had flung away the articles after an examination. Blythe laughed. "The middle name of our friend Bothwell must be thorough. He hasn't overlooked anything, by Jove." "Oh, well, it's our inning anyhow," I grinned.
Where there was a ceiling hole, one or more readily mounted with the candle to search the space above. But nowhere was trace found of Elsie, though the candle had burned to a stub when the searchers reached the last inner room. They came from it into a front room, one exit of which was closed with a padlocked door of heavy planks. Lennon recognized the entrance to the still-room.
That was the worst of his discomfort his eyes. Lack of sleep and the strain of looking, looking, against wind and sun, had made them red-rimmed and bloodshot. Miss Allen's eyes were like that, and so were the eyes of all the searchers. In spite of himself Andy's eyes closed now. He had not slept for two nights, and he had been riding all that time.
Surely enough the prints of the child's feet soon led the tired searchers back to the opening from Conway's chamber. They looked at each other in silent disappointment, and sat down for a few moments to rest and to try to think. Bachelor Billy was the first to rise to his feet. "Mike," he said, "the lad's i' this auld mine. Be it soon or late I s'all find 'im.
And so the search was given up. The two searchers left the house, apparently in close conversation. Rachel sought her room and threw herself on a sofa, oppressed by doubts and fears which she could not very well explain. The manner of Walter appeared to her not to be that of one who was pledged to marry her.
"Whereas, in the reign of our late sovereign, King James, of happy memory, an act was made for the charitable relief and ordering of persons infected with the plague; whereby authority was given to justices of the peace, mayors, bailiffs, and other head officers, to appoint within their several limits, examiners, searchers, watchmen, surgeons, and nurse-keepers, and buriers, for the persons and places infected, and to minister unto them oaths for the performance of their offices.
Moreover, female searchers were constantly on duty whose business it was to subject women travellers to a scrutiny of the strictest character, involving, even, the loosening of the coiffure. All these precautions formed part of the sankin kotai system, which proved one of the strongest buttresses of Tokugawa power.
Blodgett and his horses had done their best to trample out the girls' footsteps, but there had been no other vehicle along the road, and the searchers managed to find footprints of the girls at one side. "Sure them's them?" asked Mr. Peck. "You can see they are not the prints of men's shoes," said Tom, confidently. "Right ye air! And here's another woman's shoe only larger.
The majority of the searchers had given up the quest and gone back to their daily avocations, saying that it was plain the children could never be found. Mrs. Thatcher was very ill, and a great part of the time delirious. People said it was heartbreaking to hear her call her child, and raise her head and listen a whole minute at a time, then lay it wearily down again with a moan.
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