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sudden, wild gesture, he pointed to Chichester's rigid figure

"Blood!" he cried, "blood!--cover it up! Oh, hide it--hide it!" Then,

turning about, he sped away, hisfaintly as

he went, and so was presently gone

Then Barnabas loosed his horse and ure beneath the finger-post, galloped away

London-wards

Now, had it been possible for a worn and decrepit finger-post to be

endued with the faculty of ht, of course), it is probable that this particular one would

have torn itself up bodily, and hastened desperately after Barnabas

to point him away--away, east or west, or north or south,--anywhere,

so long as it was far enough from him who stood so very still, and

who stared with such eyes so long upon the ht hand

still hidden in his breast, while the vivid lowed

upon the pallor of his cheek