Page 45 (1/2)

"But I knew of yours," answered the storekeeper "Your agent hath an

annoying trick of speech, and the overseers have caught it from him 'Your

master' this, and 'your master' that; in short, for ten years it hath

been, 'Work, you dog, that your mastermad I have worked for you in the

fields, in the sht ht after night, I sent it

away; I would not let it bide in these dull levels, in this cursed land of

heat and stagnant waters At first it went home to its own country,--to

its friends and its foes, to the torrent and the mountain and the hed the pleasure, and I sent it

there no an to follow you"

"To follow me!" involuntarily exclaimed Haward

"I have been in London," went on the other, without heeding the

interruption "I know the life of men of quality, and where they most

resort I early learned from your other servants, and froe, that you were young,

well-looking, a ht of you the blood

caht of you constantly, and I felt

for you a constant hatred It began when I knew that Ewin Mackinnon was

dead I had no need of love; I had need of hate Day after day, ed your footsteps Up and down, to and fro,

in business and in pleasure, in whatever place I have iined you to be,