His mirth, however, received an unpleasant check; for
Abraham, greatly incensed by his previous conduct, caught him by the legs, and
pushed him with such violence into the hole that the point of the spike, which he
had placed in his pocket, found its way through his clothes to the flesh, inflicting
a slight, but painful wound. Conceiving the opportunity too favourable to be lost, Jack sprang suddenly over
the hedge, and before the man, who was floundering on the ground with one foot
in the stirrup, could extricate himself from his embarrassing position, secured his
pistols, which he drew from the holsters, and held them to his head. After occupying himself thus for the best part of an hour, he thought Jack must
have given him the slip. He blurted, “I was just
telling Lucy that I have finished an important work. “My dear friend,” she laughed, “not so tragic, if you please. He must preserve it, however, as they preserved the Ark of
the Covenant.
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