He listened to the thunder of the fall now mingling with the roar of the blast; and, driven almost frantic by what he heard and saw, he pushed with all his force against the stone. ‘Doesn’t she, Gerald?’ Gerald held up his hands. His voice had changed, the joy had gone out of it; and she understood that something from the past had rolled up to spoil this hour. ’ ‘Very true. O'Higgins was all that the doctor had imagined a detective to be: a bulky policeman in civilian clothes. " Her utterance was here choked by sobs. ‘She means thanks to you, General,’ Gerald translated automatically, forgetful of his old commander’s fiery temper. The bedding was removed; Mrs. Lord Charvill champed upon an invisible bit for a moment or two, closing the gap between himself and the girl, and muttering the name to himself in an overwrought sort of way. "But—sapperment!—I wish they hadn't broken my pipe. But, when? When do they go?’ ‘Today, miss. The aspect of the place, so far as he could discern through the gloom, was strange to him; but chancing to raise his eyes above the level of the surrounding habitations, he beheld, relieved against the sombre sky, the tall steeple of Saint Giles's church, the precursor of the present structure, which was not erected till some fifteen years later.
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