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Updated: June 16, 2025
Then all at once I remembered the seaman in the hostelry, and my guide's telling him my name, and the horseman riding by at night; 'twas clear to me now that the man was a spy of Vetch's, kept on the road for this very purpose of riding ahead of a visitor and giving intimation of his approach.
Was it maliciously arranged by Fate that Patty Vetch's social success should depend upon the people who had elected her father to office? "As if that mattered!" Her scorn of his subterfuge, her mocking defiance of the sacred formula to which he deferred, awoke in him an unfamiliar and pleasantly piquant sensation.
Being resolved on this first step, I had to consider the next. What should I do if I escaped? Should I endeavor to make my way to Spanish Town and return with a force of tars, or of soldiers from Collingwood's regiment then in garrison, sufficient to deal with Vetch's desperadoes? This idea I soon dismissed. I felt that time was of the greatest moment.
Around him were half a dozen of Vetch's villainous crew engaged in the pleasant sport of baiting their prisoner. At the moment of our entrance they were rubbing the dregs of molasses into his red hair. I learned afterwards from him that he had been seized on approaching the house, and, Vetch being absent at the time, had been carried into the kitchen for a preliminary inquisition.
Pinhorn, the surgeon, and some while after him four lads bearing a stretcher, upon which the unconscious form of my enemy was conveyed slowly up the town to Mr. Vetch's house on Pride Hill.
The affair had been far from exclusive for the enterprising ladies of the Beech Tree Day Nursery had prudently preferred a long subscription list to a limited social circle and in a gathering so obscurely "mixed" there were, without doubt, a number of Gideon Vetch's admirers.
If we could but win to a position where the returning convoy might be intercepted, I made no doubt we could overpower the white men overseers of the plantations; as to the negro drivers, I held them of little account. There was one possible danger: that the customary escort might be augmented by some of Vetch's buccaneers.
You defy us, eh?" and with every question the bully twisted my arm till I almost screamed with the pain. "Don't be a ninny," says Cludde. "What's a few apples! Why, old Ellery's trees are loaded with 'em." Vetch's grip somewhat relaxed while Cludde was speaking, and, seizing the opportunity, I wrenched my arm away with a sudden movement and took to my heels.
Vetch's office with the best will in the world to please him, and to master the principles of legal practice and procedure; but I found it hard to reconcile myself to the atmosphere of a stuffy room filled with musty tomes, and to the unvarying round of desk work copying from morning to night agreements, deeds and other documents bristling with a jargon unintelligible to me.
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