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The noise of her huge frame falling on the bed was succeeded by a silence that was soon interrupted by the renewed respiration of the peddler, and within a few minutes Harvey continued to breathe aloud, as if no interruption had occurred.
The sentinel, who felt nettled at the contempt of the peddler, after communicating his orders, while he was retiring, exclaimed to his successor,-"You may keep yourself warm by dancing, John; the peddler spy has tuned his fiddle, you hear, and it will not be long before Betty will strike up, in her turn."
Neither the officer nor the woman, however, appeared during the night, and nothing further occurred to disturb the repose of the peddler, who, to the astonishment of the different sentinels, continued by his breathing to manifest how little the gallows could affect his slumbers.
For my part, if I could only be covered by a troop now and then, I could do many an important piece of service to the cause, to which this capture of the peddler would be a trifle."
The light was not yet sufficiently powerful to reach the recesses of that gloomy spot, and a second look was necessary before he discovered, to his astonishment, that the peddler stood before him.
"Your good opinion," answered the peddler, with emotion.
"God spares the lives of His servants to His own time," said the peddler, solemnly.
"None," continued the peddler, recovering his composure.
The peddler discharged the musket in the air, and threw it at the feet of his astonished auditor.
Unable to believe that all he had seen was not a dream, Dunwoodie, followed by many of his officers, and preceded by Sergeant Hollister, went to the place which was supposed to contain the peddler.
The order was obeyed; but to the utter amazement of the honest veteran who entered the prison, he found the room in no little disorder - the coat of the peddler where his body ought to have been, and part of the wardrobe of Betty scattered in disorder on the floor.
"We'll have you roasted, Jezebel! - you've helped that damned peddler to escape."
"Betty, do you think it was really the peddler spy that I placed in this room the last night?"
"What, the divil?""Aye, even Beelzebub, disguised as the peddler; and them fellows we thought to be Skinners were his imps."
Flanagan, I mean in their incarnate spirits; the evil one knew there was no one we would arrest sooner than the peddler Birch, and he took on his appearance to gain admission to your room."
Dunwoodie repeated his injunctions to Captain Lawton again and again - dwelt on every word that had fallen from the peddler, and canvassed, in every possible manner that his ingenuity could devise, the probable meaning of his mysterious warnings, until no excuse remained for delaying his own departure.
A vague suspicion of danger to the family had been awakened in the breast of the major, by the language of the peddler, although he was unable to refer it to any particular source, or to understand why it was to be apprehended.
For some time after the departure of the troops, the captain was walking before the door of the "Hotel," inwardly cursing his fate, that condemned him to an inglorious idleness, at a moment when a meeting with the enemy might be expected, and replying to the occasional queries of Betty, who, from the interior of the building, ever and anon demanded, in a high tone of voice, an explanation of various passages in the peddler's escape, which as yet she could not comprehend.
"The peddler," said the other, glancing a look at the signpost.
"That was a charming song, Archibald, that you commenced last evening, when we were interrupted by the party that brought in the peddler," he said.
"It was the peddler - one of the most notorious spies in the enemy's service; and I must say that I think it would be an honor to such a man to be devoted to the uses of science."
There was no mistaking the hand; it was clearly the same that had given him the timely warning against assassination, and the trooper continued, for a long time, musing on the nature of these two notices, and the motives that could induce the peddler to favor an implacable enemy in the manner that he had latterly done.
Sergeant Hollister turned promptly on his heel, and seizing big saber, the steel was glittering by the firelight, in the twinkling of an eye; but perceiving the intruder to be the peddler, who stood near the open door that led to the lean-to in the rear, he began to fall back towards the position of the black, with a military intuition that taught him to concentrate his forces.
Replenishing the mug with a large addition of the article known to the soldiery by the name of "choke-dog," she held it towards the peddler.
I'm sure it is willing to hear I am.""Woman," said the peddler, "be silent; and you, foolish man, mount - arm and mount, and fly to the rescue of your officer, if you are worthy of the cause in which you serve, and would not disgrace the coat you wear."
The peddler vanished from the sight of the bewildered trio, with a rapidity that left them uncertain whither he had fled.
It was the peddler.
They afforded the most terrible confirmation of all that the peddler affirmed; the room whirled round, and she fell lifeless into the arms of her aunt.
The confusion enabled the peddler to retreat with a rapidity that would have baffled pursuit, had any been attempted, and Wellmere stood with every eye fixed on him, in ominous silence.
The trooper turned from gazing at the edifice, to the speaker, and to his astonishment, instead of one of his own men, he beheld the peddler.
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