Jack,
however, had an expedient for mastering this difficulty. At length, however, by dealing blows right and left with their swords, and even
inflicting severe cuts on the foremost of the rabble, the soldiers managed to gain
a clear course, and to drive back the assailants; who, as they retreated behind the
barricades, shouted in tones of defiance, "To Tyburn! to Tyburn!"
The object of all this tumult, meanwhile, never altered his position, but sat back
in the cart, as if resolved not to make even a struggle to regain his liberty. ‘And now, monsieur le
major—’
‘I will see you to the door,’ Gerald said, looking with interest at the building
that his observant groom had told him housed a small collection of nuns. Why hadn't he admitted that he recognized the
photograph? What instinct had impelled him swiftly to assume his Oriental
mask?
"Why?" asked O'Higgins. "Come with me to the Castle. And mind he
doesn't stir out of your sight, on any pretence whatever, till I call. I’m leaving you, and you can’t stop me. If you want me, you know where to find me. “No!” he said aloud at last. "You are arrested for high treason," rejoined Wild, presenting a pistol at his head,
while he drew forth a parchment,—"here is my warrant. To have spoken lightly on such a subject a few
hours ago would have seemed incredible. Then a hansom drove up, and his heart gave a great leap.
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