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Barnabas drew a step nearer, and, on the instant, the grovelling

figure started up to an elbow; thus, stooping down, Barnabas looked

into the haggard face of Ronald Barryasped, "hat d'you want? Go away,--l-leave o away--at once You ht!"

"W-what d' you ht at latest"

Barryue to

and fro across his lips before he spoke again: "Beverley, hat d' you--ht hand hidden!" said Barnabas

Barrymaine shivered suddenly, but his fixed stare never wavered, only,

as he crouched there, striving to speak yet finding no voice, upon

his furrowed brow and pallid cheek ran glittering lines of sweat At

last he contrived to speak again, but in a whisper now: "W-what do you ht I found this scrap of cloth, and I recognized

it as part of the cuff of your sleeve, and I found it clenched in

Jasper Gaunt's dead hand"

With a hoarse, gasping cry Barryain and writhed there like one in agony

"I d-didn't roaned and,

starting to his knees, he caught at Barnabas ild, i

hands: "Oh, Beverley, I s-swear to you I n-never ht to l-learn the truth, and he th-threatened