Chapter IX BRENDON’S LUCK Anna sat in a chair in her room and sighed. She meditated long and carefully upon her letter to her father before she wrote it, and gravely and deliberately again before she despatched it. I was sitting up, lamenting your departure, dear Thames, when, hearing an odd noise, I went to the landing, and, by the light of a dark lantern, saw Jack Sheppard, stealing up stairs, followed by two men with crape on their faces. To-morrow night —or rather to-night, for we are fast verging on another day—I propose to lure him out of the house by a stratagem which I am sure will prove infallible; and, then, what so easy as to knock him on the head. But the Remenhams in the days of Charles the First, with the need for an escape route from Cromwell’s increasingly victorious forces, had cut a trapdoor through its floor into the cellars below, and thence hewn the long rough passageway that led underground right outside the boundary of the estate. “John! Welcome! Happy Thanksgiving!” Cathy cried, ushering him deeper into the house. She must not show anything. Gosse had hidden himself successfully then. For a time he and Miss Klegg contradicted one another. ” Part 6 Then, arising she knew not how, like a new-born appetite, came a craving in Ann Veronica for the sight and sound of beauty. The Mother Abbess, while thankful, could not be brought to consent to allow the girl out of her charge alone with unknown servants, and Martha was delegated to accompany her erstwhile nurseling to the homeland she had thought never to see again. But probably not the truth. ‘Oh my God,’ uttered Gerald in some dismay.
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