The American Marquis by Nick Carter — page 16: what you’re looking at

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12 THE AMERICAN MARQUIS. could do would be to have a masked coachman. I am sorry you neglected to have four horses, though.” «You are a strange man.’ “* You’re another.’ The man laughed softly. ‘They were rattling along at a good round pace by this time. or In ashort while a soft country road was struck; and, as if waiting only for that, the driver spoke to his horses, and, like a flash, they sprang into a furious pace. The carriage swayed and bounced, and the two men in- ‘side with difficulty kept their seats. ‘‘If a thunder-storm would only come on now,” said Clinton, ‘‘and we should fall over a cliff just as a flash of lightning broke through the black sky, how | die i Nig it would be!” - ** Perhaps; but I should enjoy it best if I were out of the carriage. You might be accommodated going back—at any rate as to the storm, for one 1s coming up.’ ““Maybe you will see to it that Iam accommodated on the way back.” _ © Why should I?” **T don’t know.” Nothing more was said until, in about an hour, a stop Was made, and new horses were put in. “< Where are we?’ asked Clinton. ‘¢Can’t you tell?” cé No. 73 el | dont wan’t you to. I'll blindfold you now if you please.” Three times the horses were changed, and Clinton cal- culated that nearly fifty miles had been covered, and that it must be after midnight. CHAPTER III. A VISION OF LOVELINESS. A sudden stop; a shout; the creaking of an iron gate; the erushing of stones under the wheels as the carriage moved more slowly on. ‘‘ We are here.” ERD) eye) f comicbooks.co