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He pulled himself up as Burke marched his man around the corner. The Monk hurried, somewhat unsteadily, to the edge of the fruit stand and looked round it after the two figures. "Do youse know dat cop, ye damn Ginnie?" muttered Jimmie. "Signor, no!" replied the fruit dealer, nervously. "I never saw heem on dis beat before to-day, wenna he buy de apple from me."
He went up stairs, never thinking how his deep trouble about so insignificant an incident would strike a third person. "Mrs. Rosewarne," he said right out, "I want you to tell me if Wenna wishes our acquaintance to end. Has she been speaking to you? Just now she passed me in the street as if she did not wish to see me again." "Probably," said Mrs.
He was angry with Wenna, and so he broke out once more in his old vein. "There are worse men than the parsons, Harry," the old lady said. "I'll bet you a sovereign there are two on the doorstep." He would have lost. There was not a clergyman of any sort in or about the house. "Isn't Mr. Barnes here?" said he to his mother. Mrs. Trelyon flushed slightly as she said, "No, Harry, Mr.
Crossing over that single plank in the dead of night was a sufficiently dangerous experiment, but both these young ladies had had plenty of experience in keeping their wits about them in more perilous places. "Why are you in such a hurry, Mabyn?" Wenna asked when they had crossed.
Her face was a trifle red: that was, all. "It was a stupid thing to do," she said, "but I suppose he meant no harm. Will you send him back the ring?" "Yes," she said eagerly. "Give me the ring, Wenna." She carefully wrapped it up in a piece of paper and put it in her pocket. Any one who knew her would have seen by her face that she meant to give that ring short shrift.
There was a strange look there, as of a man who had suddenly resolved to dare his fate, and yet was imploringly anxious as to the result. "For you have been frank with me, and so will I be with you. Why should you not have kept that flower? Yes, I sent it to you, and with all the purpose that such a thing could carry. Yes, you may be as angry as you please; only listen, Wenna.
The girl was startled, bewildered, but not frightened; for in a second he had taken her by the hand, and then she heard him say to her, in an anxious, low, imploring voice, "Wenna, my darling, don't be alarmed. See here: I have got everything ready to take you away; and Mabyn is coming with us; and you know I love you so that I can't bear the notion of your falling into that man's hands.
He stopped short, remembering who his companion was; and at this moment they came to a gate which opened out on the highway, through which the small cur was passed to find his way home. "Now, Miss Wenna," said the young man "By the way, you see how I remember to address you respectfully ever since you got sulky with me about it the other day?"
And there is only one face in all the world that I look to for all these things, there is only one person I know who tells you openly and simply in her face all that affects her, and that is our Wenna. I suppose you have noticed that, Mr. Trelyon?" But he did not make any answer.
"The best one is by the station; but if you sleep in the front of the house, you have the whistling of engines all night long, and if you sleep in the back, you overlook a barracks, and the confounded trumpeting begins about four o'clock, I believe." "Wenna and I won't mind that we shall be too tired," Mabyn said. "Do you think they could give us a little hot coffee when we arrive?" "Oh yes.
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