"Forgive me—oh, forgive me!"
"Forgive you—bless you!" she gasped. And then her pace slackened. "I don't see how
you do it, Hoddy. Giles!
"Devil seize the woman!" growled the singer, as he brought his ditty to a close;
"will nothing tempt her out? Widow Sheppard, I say," he added, rising, "don't be
afraid. "
"Awake!—to be sure I am, my flash cove," replied Sheppard; "I'm down as a
hammer. By a miracle, he averted its path, his hold on the girl’s mouth shifting fast to
grasp her wrist. They
used the rope—not that a rope was at all necessary, but because Ann Veronica’s
exalted state of mind made the fact of the rope agreeably symbolical; and,
anyhow, it did insure a joint death in the event of some remotely possibly
mischance. “Someone must have found it and taken good care of
it. "
Neither man spoke. In this state, he contrived to get the poor black's hand into his mouth, and
nearly bit off one of his fingers before the sufferer could be rescued.
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