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the rescue of my life," continued the Captain, "and that's no small debt for one man to owe to another."

"Why, your honour," said the constable, "somehow I'd a misgiving about things. I didn't like the look of him I saw skulking up the garden-not that I saw his face, sure enough; but, to my mind, there's as much to be seen in the back of a man, if he's a bad'un, as there is in the face of many a better one. So, after I left the house—that is, when I left the room where you and his worship were sitting-I walked round and round, and peeped in at every window where there was a chink; but as there was nothing but darkness inside, so there was nothing but darkness to be seen. At last, through the chinks o' one window-shutter, there was a light; and yet it wasn't through the chinks neither, it was through the round loop-holes at top. Now, as none o' th' windows i' the groundfloor are over high, I e'en climbed o' th' window-sill outside and peeped in, and there, for sure, I saw the very man we'd seen skulking up the walk, and there was that evil-eyed devil sitting over against him. She seemed to be talking very hard, just as though she was working him up to do something he didn't seem to have a mind to do. At first he was angry like, but by little and little he seemed at last to think about what she said, yet now and then he got up and walked about as though he didn't quite like it, nevertheless. I declare, your honour, by these movements, and by the changes that passed over their faces, I guessed at what they were talking about, just as if it had been spoken words. Somehow or other, I thought that there'd be work to do, so I sent Tom off for Bill Strickland. When they came back the stable-clock struck two. Now, what I wanted to do was, in somehow to get into the house-for, you see, your honour, if I'd done anything to raise the hue and cry, he'd ha' been off as sure as a gun. So I told 'em to near the house, and that if, by any chance, I could, I'd get in. I tried the windows, but they were all fast enough. But when I came to the window o' th' pantry,

I saw the wiring was not fastened, so I got in there; but it was a hard squeeze. Then I groped my way to th' sidedoor, and when I'd opened it, I slipped out and told Tom and Bill Strickland how to get in if need be that they were wanted. Then I went back and stood so that I could give eye to the door o' the room where the old devil was, and yet skip out o' sight in a minute if it should open. For, your honour, there's not a nook nor a corner in this old house that I don't know, and that I hav'n't known this many a year. Well, your honour, so, after I ha' waited a weary while, at last I saw the door open very slowly, and out comes them two. I skipped away in a jiffy. And, please your honour, you know all that happened afterwards."

Indeed I do," said the Captain; "I know it too well ever to forget it and now, will you please to find your way again into the pantry, and help yourself and friends to such refreshment as it may afford; and here," continued he, taking the decanters from the sideboard, "perhaps you'll take these as accompaniments."

"If I may be so bold," said the constable, " please, your honour, to help yourself first."

When the Captain threw back the shutters the morning was already dawning, but there were yet two dreary hours before the inmates at Forest Hall would be up. The constable was sent as messenger. Mark immediately returned with him to the Manor-house, and, on the way, he detailed every particular of the night's adventures.

When Mark and the Captain met, after congratulating him heartily on his escape, he added, "Doubtless their object was to get you out of the way, in the belief that no one would then have power to proceed against them. But who is this fellow?"

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"That has to be proved," said the Captain; "no doubt an emissary of Mr. Gosport; and through his means, perhaps, we may be able to trace the rascal."

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