Roanoke of Roanoke Hall: A Romance — page 215: what you’re looking at

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Roanoke of Roanoke ‘Hall. 209 the distance, in the direction of a dark mass which I knew to be the house we were approaching. T learned from my somewhat reticent friend that a long series of daring outrages and evasions of the excise had culminated in the ‘cold-blooded murder of an officer, as it was supposed by John o’ Compton and Stephen Ashland, for his body had been found with the throat cut, cast ashore close to the mouth of the river which flowed past the Grange. “‘T must ask you to dismount here, if you please,” said the man, as we arrived at the beginning of the stonework. ‘There is no need to announce our approach more than is necessary.” I explained that, owing to my fall, I was ~ unable to walk without intolerable agony, and as the man seemed to still nurse some doubts, and to be unwilling to leave me to myself, it was decided, after some discussion, that I should be allowed to continue as I was. “Depend upon it,” said one man, “ John o’ Compton knows as much about it as we do by this time.” *‘Aye, and more too, or I’m much mis- comichbooks.com