Grey Man
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- I looked out of the window, rubbing my sore head the while with my hand.
- And my master, Sir Thomas, answered him from the coppice,--
- I could not conceive what she meant.
- But she turned and cried after me, 'I know who will get that other.'
- I asked how that could be.
- And in this I was right, for he answered at once,--
- I was so greatly astonished that I could not speak at once.
- I said no more. It was not easy to argle-bargle with Nell Kennedy.
- I motioned her to go first, but she turned on me in great indignation.
- He paused a moment, and then continued,--
- So I said, 'It is monstrously well done of you thus to divert me.'
- I stared at him, stunned and dumbfounded.
- I looked at it a moment, turning it over in my hand.
- I told him but John, Earl of Cassillis, and his brother the Master.
- Nell replied coldly enough, 'I should like to see my sister.'
- I bowed and thanked him for his courteous words.
- She continued, after a pause,--
- I called the Dominie.
- But I heard the Dominie say under his breath, 'It is she! It is she!'
- I held out my hand to her. Never had I been so moved with any meeting.
- I bent still nearer to his ear.
- I answered him with another question.
- Then the Earl of Cassillis answered him,--
- Then said the King, 'Bring hither James of Chapeldonnan!'
- I was moved to speak to him.
- But Nell said, 'No, no; hear my tale first.'
- So I said, 'Nelly, show them the treasure. Here is the key!'
- I saw the death sweat break on her brow.
- THE END
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