"'The Man Who Could Not Go Home. ‘Ah, no,’ Gerald uttered at once, lowering his voice and infusing it with all the
promise he could command. He is in the secret passage. “We have,” he said, “to be the utmost friends. In a little while—to-morrow—all
these tender, beautiful emotions will pass away, and I'll become what I was
yesterday, a cynical, miserly old spinster. I have come thirteen thousand miles for this young fellow;
I'm ready to go galloping thirteen thousand more. "Tom Sheppard never said a better thing than that—
ho! ho!"
"Jack," cried his mother, wringing her hands in distraction, "you'll break my
heart!"
"Poh! poh!" returned her son; "women don't so easily break their hearts. Kneebone, having been alarmed by something in the widow's
look before her feelings found vent in the manner above described, thrust his
hand instinctively into his coat in search of his pocket-book,—about the security
of which, as it contained several letters and documents implicating himself and
others in the Jacobite plot, he was, not unnaturally, solicitous,—and finding it
gone, he felt certain he had been robbed.
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