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CHAPTER 68
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THE FRAY1.
It now becomes our duty to return for a short time to Sir Henry Ashwoode and Nicholas Blarden, whom we left in hot pursuit of the trembling fugitives2. The night was consumed in vain but restless search, and yet no satisfactory clue to the direction of their flight had been discovered; no evidence, not even a hint, by which to guide their pursuit. Jaded3 by his fruitless exertions4, frantic5 with rage and disappointment, Nicholas Blarden at peep of light rode up to the hall door of Morley Court.
"No news since?" cried he, fixing his bloodshot eyes upon the man who took his horse's bridle6, "no news since?"
"No, sir," cried the fellow, shaking his head, "not a word."
"Is Sir Henry within?" inquired Blarden, throwing himself from the saddle.
"No, sir," replied the man.
"Not returned yet, eh?" asked Nicholas.
"And left no message for me, eh?" rejoined Blarden.
"There's a note, sir, on a scrap8 of paper, on the table in the hall, I forgot to mention," replied the man—"he wrote it in a hurry, with a pencil, sir."
Blarden strode into the hall, and easily discovered the document—a hurried scrawl9, scarcely legible; it ran as follows:—
"Nothing yet—no trace—I half suspect they're
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lurking
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deserted
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promptly
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crimson
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gilded
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voraciously
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speculations
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gallows
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doorway
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tavern
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inquiries
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uproar
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hopping
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ribs
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affected
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tingling
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veins
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sneering
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insolence
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subside
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humiliation
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rabble
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degradation
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boisterous
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intentionally
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audacity
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resolutely
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obstinacy
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wretch
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gathering
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constables
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forger
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