Roanoke of Roanoke Hall: A Romance — page 50: what you’re looking at

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44 Roanoke of Roanoke Hall, plunge and rear with affright. ‘‘ Fair words are the best metal with a cruiser athwart your stem.” ‘“What mean you ?” I exclaimed, doubt- ing within myself whether it were wise to call for help or not. ‘‘ Know you Stephen Ashland ?” - “How should I know him? Tell me that,” he said, answering indirectly, as if hesituting what to say or do. «‘Then let me go,” I replied. “Tell me this,” he went on, hotly, sud- denly bringing his horse round beside mine, so that he looked me straight in the face, his hand still on my bridle. ‘‘ What dost thou want wi’ Master Stephen ?” *‘ What is that to you ?” I said, startled but not altogether daunted by the sinister light that gleamed in his deep eye-sockets beneath the shaggy brows. ‘If you know him not, there isan end; and if you know him, you know not me, and my affairs are naught to you.” ‘‘Well crowed, my gamecock!” he ex- — claimed, with another grisly chuckle. “ Don’t. count thy gains ere thou hast run thy cargo. comichbooks.com