Bonny Jean, and A Severe Threat — page 57: what you’re looking at

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50 BONNY JEAN. He stuck his spade into the ground, and stepping close to the gum trees, examined the trunk of each attentively. Yes, there was one marked with a cross. He drew a quick breath of rapture, and his eyes flashed greedily. ‘‘Ah!” he cried, ‘‘ I’m on the right track !” He seized the spade, and began to dig in the ground at the foot of the tree that was marked with a cross. He had turned up two or three spadefuls of earth, when suddenly all grew dark before his eyes, he was in total gloom, while a voice hissed, rather than spoke, in his ear: ‘‘Gabriel Black! Dare to rob my innocent child, and you shall never know a moment's peace! I will hunt you down to your death, until you pray for the refuge of the grave! You shall suffer, Gabriel Black, the punishment due to the dastard who robs the widow and orphan !” He felt a stinging blow upon the head ; his-temples seemed bound in iron bands; he fel] to the ground, and the night and darkness covered him. CHAPTER X, ONE NIGHTS WORK. ‘‘T never will! So, there!” Lady Lee swung her sun-hat upon her arm by its crimson ribbons, and sprang lightly over the narrow ditch which sep- arated the lane from the great green pasture. Just inside the bars stood old Aunt Dinah, likea quaint figure carved in ebony, the yellow rays of the setting sun gilding her black features gro- tesquely, and resting ina halo upon her high towering, gaudy turban ; then glancing off and glinting over the shining milk buckets in her hand. It was evening, and milking time at the Lee Place, and old Dinah had emerged from the mysterious precincts of the kitchen to attend to her usual duties in the pasture. =) Eomichooks.co