168 < 20 > HISTORY OF AN ABDUCTION She had not seen him for hundreds of years. Here he was preparing to leap over the hedge into the fields on the left, when he was intercepted by two horsemen, who, hearing the shouts, rode up and struck at him with the butt-ends of their heavy riding-whips. Thus, all her interest in life began to centre upon the patient, who was apparently quite as anchorless as she was. “You must leave me your address if you please,” he said, as she rose to go. The houses were older, the shops gloomier, and the thoroughfare narrower, it is true; but the bustle, the crowd, the street-like air was the same. In this way, more than a month passed over. Ennison roused himself with an effort, took a long drink from his whisky and soda, and lit a cigarette. After debating with himself whether he should further seek an interview, which, though, now in his power, was so sedulously shunned by the other party, he decided in the negative; and contenting himself with writing upon a slip of paper the hasty words,—"You are known by the villagers,—be upon your guard,"—he gave it to the ostler, with instructions to deliver it instantly to the owner of the horse he pointed out, and pursued his course. Jack then intimated his intention of visiting Winifred's chamber, in which several articles of value were known to be kept; but as, notwithstanding his reckless character, he still retained a feeling of respect for the object of his boyish affections, he would not suffer Blueskin to accompany him, so he commanded him to keep watch over the sleepers—strictly enjoining him, however, to do them no injury. I know well that you are making a game with me. The room was intimate and wonderful to her with its shadows now cast over the girlish menagerie of stuffed animals. Anna felt that her words had become charged with a fuller and more subtle meaning than any which she had intended to impart. ’ ‘I find that difficult to believe,’ snapped the general, jerking to and fro as his agitation mounted.
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