Roanoke of Roanoke Hall: A Romance — page 96: what you’re looking at

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go Roanoke of Roanoke Halt. indifference as I was master of, and looked round. He was not there. At the next corner the result was the same. His boat still floated at the steps, but he was nowhere to be seen. Had he entered by the great gate? With more caution I advanced to see. That could not be; my forgotten gun lay, plainly visible by me now, across the thres- hold, and must have attracted his attention and aroused his suspicions. The third and fourth sides of the house were equally de- serted, and when I again reached the postern I was only sure of one thing. The man of the woods had mysteriously vanished. | Comicbooks.comn ,