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Updated: June 7, 2025
Close against the cliff it blew until she was almost breathless, when the rock she clung to gave way, and she fell down and down! Jacob Tressider was awake. He had heard a noise like the breaking of delf in the kitchen below, and he wondered if Bess had heard it too. He got out of bed and dressed himself, and then came down the ladder which did service for a staircase to see what was amiss.
And indeed the Marquis, it would seem, has at last ceased to worry over his cravat, and has taken the lead, and now, stooped low in the saddle, gallops a good twelve yards in front of Tressider. "Come on Bev!" cries the Viscount and, uttering a loud "view hallo," flourishes his whip.
The devilish cunning of Rudolph Rayne was indeed well illustrated by the clever trap which he had set for me by the instrumentality of that pretty woman-thief, Betty Tressider, who called herself Lady Lydbrook. I now realized by Rayne's overbearing attitude that he had, by a ruse, succeeded in his object in compelling me to become an active accomplice of the gang.
"....very mysterious person," Sir Mortimer was saying, "nobody knows him, devilish odd, eh, Tressider? Tufton Green dubbed him the 'Galloping Countryman, what do you think of the name?" "Could have suggested a better, curse me if I couldn't, yes, Carnaby, oh damme!
I must cut the whole place. I shall go into the army: it's the only profession open to a fool like me; and they say it won't be long open, either. When I come back, Jue, I suppose you'll be Mrs. Tressider." "I am very sorry," his cousin said, not heeding the reference to herself: "I never expected to see you so deep in trouble, Harry.
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