ever come back to this neighbourhood ay he comes back said the landlord to his friends now and again and gives the cold to the man that made him what is that him that i speak of the landlord mr la he ungrateful to no one else no doubt be would be if he could returned the but he t and why because done everything for liim does say so say so replied the landlord he han t no call but does he say so it would turn a man s to white wine to hear him tell of it said the landlord i thought yet joe dear joe you never tell of it suffering and loving joe you never complain for you sweet tempered your appetite m been touched like by your said the landlord glancing at a t ii er coat try a to brood over the fire i can eat no it away i had been struck at so keenly fa thank to joe as through the brazen im the ho the truer joe he the nobler joe my heart was deeply and most as i mused over the fire for an hour or striking of the clock aroused me but not is or remorse and i got up and had my fastened round my neck and went out i sought in my pockets for the letter that i refer to it again but could not find it and was i to think that it have been dropped in the of the coach i knew very well however tha appointed place was the little by the on the and the hour nine i now went straight having no time to i chapter xxv it was a dark night though the full moon i the enclosed lands and passed out mai beyond their dark line there was a i of clear sky hardly broad enough to hold the red moon in a few minutes she had out o clear field in among the piled mountains of there was a melancholy wind and the were very dismal a stranger would have found and even to me they were bo that i half to o fi but i well and could liave t and had no excuse for returning being so having come there against my � cut on against it the direction that i took was not that in which old home lay nor that in which we had pursued my hack was turned towards the as i walked on and though i could see the old away on the of sand i saw them over my i knew the as well as i knew the battery but they were miles apart so that if a it had at each point that night there have been a long strip of the blank horizon be the two bright at first i had to shut some gates after me and i and then to stand still while the cattle that were ig in the up arose and n among the grass and but after a little i seemed to have the whole to myself it was another half hour before i drew to the j the lime was burning with a stifling ill but the fires were made np and left and no were visible hard by was a small it lay directly in my way and had been that day as i saw by the tools and t were lying about coming up again to the marsh level out of this � for the path lay through it � i � a light in the old house i quickened my e and knocked at the door with my hand some reply i looked about me noticing how was abandoned and broken and ta w se � of wood with a � � a � t the weather much ts a w � j even now tlie and were co ted lime and how the choking of the ere a ghostly way towards me still there was no an i knocked ko answer and i it rose under my hand and tlie door looking in i saw a lighted candle on a table a h and a on a as i above i called is there any one here bi voice answered then i looked at my watch finding that it was past nine called again le any one here there being still no answer i out at the door what to do it beginning to rain fast seeing nothing what i had seen already i turned back into the h and stood within the shelter of the doorway ing out into the night while i was considering some one must have been there lately and be coming back or the candle would not be it came into head to look if the i turned round to do so and had taken up the in my hand when it was extinguished by some vi shock and tbe next thing i comprehended was i had been caught a strong running th over head from behind tow said a suppressed voice with an oath got you what is this i cried struggling who i help help not only were my arms pulled close to my but the pressure on bad arm caused me pain sometimes a a ty and with a hi t always close to me l struggled in dark while i tight to the wall and now said the voice with another oath call oat again and make short work of finishing faint and sick with the pain of my by the and yet conscious how this threat could be put in execution i lad tried to ease arm were it ever bo t was bound too tight for that i felt as if having before it were now being boiled the sudden of the night and the of black darkness in its place warned me that ihe man had closed 