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JOSEPH WILMOT; OR, THE MEMOIRS OF A MAN-SERVANT. 209 ) | { = z f . =D Fj < \ 2S = \ i, ; Yh soon SY ee || a SSS " A i p SCEE (i) SS] ae Ulu ie «| —— EDIE SE IRE IT ates 3 = —— * o ° * terjected Lanover: and now his harsh jarring voice “ Only a few days more—and then they propose sent forth a chuckling sound. to return to England. If it had not been for Sir “Trust me for that!’ ejaculated Dorchester. | Matthew Heseltine’s illness after that affair with “Who knows tho art of disguise so well as I do? | Marco Uberti’s band, they would have proceeded —and furnished with three or four different pass- | straight to England at once. But his sickness ports to suit the various disguises which I am thus | was, as you are aware, most dangerous: and the able to assume—those passports likewise being all | physicians ordered him to Leghorn é made out in different names “ T know all that,” observed Lanover impatiently. “But do come to the point!” interrupted Lan- | “ Now, answer me a few questions, You say over. “ What did you do?” you have got on pretty friendly terms with the old ** Everything you told me,” answered Dorches- | Baronet P” ter. “I went to Leghorn—found all the birds “ Excellent,” answered Dorchester. there—took up my abode at the same hotel—got « And Mrs. Lanover—and Annabel ?” acquainted with them—made myself most agree- “They are rather reserved towards all strangers able to the old gentleman a —pbut still courteous enough to me se “And they are there now?” cried Lanover «“ And did you walk or ride out with them at eagerly. all?” proceeded Lanover: ‘‘did you plan excur- ‘““Yes—there now,” returned Dorchester. sions? Jor remember, I told you to be particular “And how long will they stop?’ demanded | on these points x Lanover. | “And I was,” rejoined Dorchester. “Several 79 COMIC OOKS, COM