Roanoke of Roanoke Hall: A Romance — page 213: what you’re looking at

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Roanoke of Roanoke Hall. 207 geance on the villain John o’ Compton, and Stephen Ashland.” My interlocutor, who wore a shrewd, amia- ble expression upon his sunburned face, looked me steadily in the eyes for a full minute before he turned away. “If that is so, you have come in the nick of time. Letusgoon, my men.” He added several directions in an undertone to his ascociates, who formed up in such a way as to completely surround me, and I perceived that in spite of his ready acquiescence in my avowed object he was not without his sue- Picions, and that his willing acceptance of my company, and the arrangement of his men, were in reality a kind of informal arrest, a discovery which in no way disquieted me. ‘You must know the road passing well to venture on it in such darkness,” I said, as we moved in this order down the hill. ‘It is a difficult spot at the best of times.” “Why, when did you last cross it?” asked my original questioner, who was walking close at my right hand. ‘* More than ten years ago,” I replied. ‘‘Ten years! Whew!” cried the man. 7 > comichbooks.com