Roanoke of Roanoke Hall: A Romance — page 56: what you’re looking at

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50 Roanoke of Roanoke Hall. back along that devious and unindicated route with death on either hand was equally impossible. What else? The mere reviewing of the situation served to calm my tingling nerves and still my fluttering heart. Something must he done, and quickly. It was scarcely credible that a man who knew me not should have guided me so far, when he might have compassed my death so long before. He had, without doubt, gone his own way, having brought me within sight of the house, where he himself had no business, whose light shone mistily upon me across the ever-widening tide-race. It could not be but that he had given me the true directions; and even if it were not so, it was my only chance. In any other case cold death awaited me for sure ; so it were best to test his honesty without further delay—a de- lay which might well in itself prove fatal. With set teeth and beating heart I urged my snorting steed forwards. A cold wind came moaning in from the sea along the lev- els, already a foot or more below the waves, through which he tramped, splashing me from head to heel. Ever and anon I glanced oO comichbooks.com