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And she came out, did the old woman, with her eyes rolled up and her arms lifted high, looking as she a'most always does when she hears anything dreadful; looking just for all the world as she did the day she heard of poor Ailsie's murder. Well, my lady, I felt sure as she had been a-hiding of herself in my lord's room, and had discovered something horrible.
But a detective was already gone off on the errand. Where was Norah? Half mad with the strain of the fearful secret, she had hardly slept through the night for thinking what must be done. Upon this terrible state of mind had come Ailsie's questions, showing that she had seen the Man, as the unconscious child called her father. Lastly came the suspicion of her honesty.
Early the next summer's morning, Mrs Openshaw was awakened by Ailsie's startled call of 'Mother! mother! She sprang up, put on her dressing-gown, and went to her child. Ailsie was only half awake, and in a not unusual state of terror. 'Who was he, mother? Tell me! 'Who, my darling? No one is here. You have been dreaming, love. Waken up quite. See, it is broad daylight.
She came upstairs again, and she took the coal hod out'n my hands, and said said she: "'You go right straight downstairs, Jim, and I'll tend to my ladyship's fires myself. And I said: "'Mother, said I, 'what's the matter? And she whispered to me: "'I done hear somethin' awful, Jim; but I must tell my ladyship before I tells anyone else. "'Was it about poor Ailsie's death? said I.
"An'it please your lairdship, there are twa poleecemen downstairs, wi' a posse at their tails," answered the old man, bowing humbly. "What is their business here?" "I dinna ken, me laird." "Something about that stupid murder, I suppose." Faustina started; she was probably thinking of Katie. "I dinna think it is onything connected wi' Ailsie's death, me laird." "What then?
A ship was in the offin'. She had distress signals flyin'. He could get neebody te man a boat but women; the men wadn't hev onythin' te dee wiv him, so his awn wife, Ailsie's Jenny, Nanny Dent, and Peggy Story went.
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