" "I thought as much," sneered Mrs. ‘Why do you stand there? Take him up, and bring him out at once. Then you won't tell me where he's going?" "I will tell you six months from now. But—Miss Pellissier!” “Well?” “Are you quite sure that you want us this evening? Wouldn’t you rather be alone? Just say the word, and we’ll clear out like a shot. Before many minutes elapsed, he had picked a large hole in the plaster, which showered down in a cloud of dust; and breaking off several laths, caught hold of a beam, by which he held with one hand, until with the other he succeeded, not without some difficulty, in forcing out one of the tiles. It had been a trying day. "During the whole of that time I have been a close prisoner in Newgate, whence I have only just escaped. I've foiled him hitherto, and will foil him yet. He glanced at Ruth (who had stood with her back to the wall, pinned there throughout the contest by terror and the knowledge of her own helplessness), then at the bronze menace, and calculated correctly that this particular adventure was finished. The stranger concluded he could not be far from his destination, and a turn in the road showed him the house. But Jack was too well versed in the geography of the place to attempt either of them. She was frowning, but it was evident that her initial fright had left her.
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