The darkness prevented the carpenter from discerning the features or figure of
the stranger; and the ceaseless din precluded the possibility of holding any
communication by words with him. . McClintock, without comment, accepted the hand. He was bringing the sing-song girl to the hotel!
The strange cortège presently vanished below the window-sill. Most of all she enjoyed the gentle
gratitude of her foster family members, even the teasing
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of Mike, her foster brother, who liked to play food critic
to give her a hard time. At length, however, by dealing blows right and left with their swords, and even
inflicting severe cuts on the foremost of the rabble, the soldiers managed to gain
a clear course, and to drive back the assailants; who, as they retreated behind the
barricades, shouted in tones of defiance, "To Tyburn! to Tyburn!"
The object of all this tumult, meanwhile, never altered his position, but sat back
in the cart, as if resolved not to make even a struggle to regain his liberty. After all there are other things. Even in this dread moment Ruth was
conscious of a pathetic interest in the scattering pencils. "What's the matter, lad, after all the wonderful fireworks at lunch?"
Spurlock beheld McClintock standing beside him.
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