ame out of the doorway to meet him saw the slight figure that crouched against the wall close by the door they had to enter. And if they had seen it, what would they have thought? That the idiot boy was only more freakish than usual, or was waiting about for the dime which was the usual pay for his services. Neither the clouds, nor the trees,Cam Fowler Tröjor, nor the surrounding darkness would have whispered that an eager woman’s heart beat under that boy’s jacket, and that they had better trust the wind in its sweep,Travis Hamonic Tröjor, the water in its rush,Ralph Lauren Halsduk, or the fire in its ravaging,CG Menn Hybridge Jakke, than the will that lay coiled behind the feebly moving lip and wandering,Martin Havlat Tröjor, restless eye of the seeming idiot who knelt there.
“So I was safe and for the moment could hear and see. And this was what I saw: A tall and gentlemanly form, carrying a lantern which he took pains should shine on Mr. Barrows’ face and not on his own. The expression of the former was, therefore,Jamie Benn Tröjor, plain to me, and in it I read something more than reluctance, something which I dimly felt to be fear. His anxiety, however,Belstaff Icon Jackor, did not seem to spring from his companion,Andreas Martinsen Tröjor, but from the building he was about to enter, for it was when he looked up at its frowning walls and shadowy portal that I saw him shudder and turn pale. They went in, however. Not without a question or two from Mr. Barrows as to whom his guide was and where the sick man lay, to all of which the other responded shortly or failed to respond at all, facts which went far to convince me that a deception of some kind was being practised upon the confiding clergyman.
“I was consequently in a fever of impatience to follow them in, and had at last made up my mind to do so, when I heard a deep sigh,David Backes Tröjor, and glancing up towards the doorway,Wayne Gretzky Tröjor, saw that it was again occupied by the dark figure which I had so lately seen pass in with Mr. Barrows. He had no lantern now, and I could not even discern the full outlines of his form,Graham Knott Tröjor, but his sigh being repeated, I knew who he was as certainly as if I had seen him, for it was one which had often been breathed in my ears, and was as well known to me as the beatings of my own heart. This discovery, as you may believe, Miss Sterling, did not tend to allay either my curiosity or my impatience, and when in a few minutes the watcher drew back, I stole from my hiding-place, and creeping up to the open doorway, listened. A sound of pacing steps came to my ears. The entrance was guarded.
“For a moment I stood baffled, then remembering the lantern which had been carried into the building, I withdrew quietly from the door,Rob Ramage Tröjor, and began a tour of inspection round about the mill in the hope of spying some glimmer of light from one or more of the many windows, and in this way learn the exact spot to which Mr. Barrows had been taken. It was a task of no mean difficulty, Miss Sterling, for the bushes cluster thick about those walls, and I had no light to warn me of their whereabouts or of the many loose stones that lay in heaps here and there along the way. But I would not have stopped if firebrands had been under
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