"That'll be all right," he said urbanely. "Of course I understand your feelings are more important to you than your cow. We'll do our best to meet you. What do you value them at, eh?"

"Were you reared on this barony, Margaret?" resumed the baron."Oh, I thought you wur never coming back."25 - 30

"She'll never come back," said Pete that evening��"you t?ake my word fur it."30

A quick knock aroused Mary from her seat at the fire. She approached the door on tiptoe, and hesitated a moment ere she unclosed it; but the rapid breathings of Byles relieved her alarm, and she opened it hastily. A pale, haggard look met her eyes as her husband rushed in. "Fasten the door, Mary," said he��"haste, quench the fire. Here, put these wet clothes in the hiding place"��stripping himself of his garments��"and when you have done, hasten to bed. I am afraid they have overtaken poor Sam."

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The excitement created by his defence of Lewin was nothing to that which now raged in Rye and Peasmarsh. Reuben was besieged by the curious, who found relief[Pg 387] for a slight alloy of envy by pointing out how unaccountable well the young man had done for himself by running away.15 .

Black Jack seized the empty flaggon and was about to hurl it at the head of the facetious under-strapper, when his arm was arrested by the old man who had first spoken.-

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