Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1900. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... tion before he met her and told her what he had done. But now a keen eagerness seized him to find her and carry her out of harm's reach before his own liberty of action was interfered with. Tomorrow, or more probably to-night, he would be a prisoner in a police cell, and there would be a hundred formalities for Mary to go through before she could see him. For a moment only he was free, and he must make the best use of his freedom in preparing his sweetheart for their parting and providing for her comfort and safety. Zant's forty-five guineas -- less the sovereign he had given Vandaji -- were in his pocket. They would be sufficient to maintain her until his inevitable trial was over. For himself keep and lodging would be provided by the police authorities. The need of action roused him from his physical torpor. Already it seemed to him that he had wasted hours doing nothing, when time was valuable. He would go in search of Vandaji, and tell him that his master had met with an accident in the corridor. The Hindoo might have a duplicate key of the gate. At any rate, he would know the best means of gaining admittance to the tower, and he would have no object now except resentment in preventing his finding Mary. Until that was done his resentment must be averted by some fiction. The boy's victory over Zant had filled him with a sense of power and authority. The difficulties in his way appeared insignificant to him, and he stooped to pick up his pocket-book, and was about to let the door close itself, when a morbid curiosity drew his eyes once more to the gate, where their gaze stopped suddenly arrested. Something dimly white had moved in the darkness behind the bars. A superstitious wonder that was too intellectual to be fear held the boy motionless. He had ...
