Roanoke of Roanoke Hall: A Romance — page 114: what you’re looking at

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108 Roanoke of Roanoke Hall. cap, which I had dropped in my fright, lying in full view at his feet. With a word of caution to his companion, however, he de- scended without noticing it. I breathed a sigh of relief, but the’ next moment the stranger trod upon it, and having picked it up examined it with fearful interest. “‘What’s this?” he said, in French; and my blood ran cold as he spoke, but the instant afterwards Jchn o’ Compton’s voice answered harshly from below, in the same tongue : “Never thou mind what may be there. Tis none of thy business; and they that ask too many questions hereabouts are apt to find something sharper than the truth be- tween their teeth.” He laughed that gruesome laugh of his as the other man, flinging down the cap with a muttered complaint, commenced the de- . scent, and by the time I had secured it the tracery was back in its place. Great as was the risk of remaining, I could not tear myself away until I had found out, if possible, what connection there could be between Jobn o’ Compton and Stephen Ash- comichbooks.com