Roanoke of Roanoke Hall: A Romance — page 100: what you’re looking at

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04 . Roanoke of Roanoke Hall. behind me, and: turning beheld in the door- way of the passage leading to the postern an unknown, ill-favored man who, seeing that he had attracted my attention, withdrew by the way he had come. “Who's that?” I cried. “‘That,” said Meg, deliberately, ‘that maun be the chiel that'll be doin’ Jamie’s wark while he’s awa’, I’m thinkin’.” And not another word would she utter on the sub- ject. I soon found that this new-comer was not inclined to treat me with the sulky neglect that his predecessor had displayed. Indeed, his interest in my proceedings was more ~ marked than I altogether approved of. I was bent upon making a thorough re-ex- amination of the house, to discover if possible some traces of the last night’s transactions. Wherever I went he also seemed to have some important occupation. He passed me in the passages, or looked out upon me from the deserted chambers, and on one occasion fairly surprised me by appearing in the stables ‘when I had left him but a few minutes be- fore hard at work in the great hall on the Wes oO comichbooks.com