2/3 The man that had the candle got clear away, and all the rest fell upon Martin, and after a long and fierce struggle, in the course of which they were more than once all rolling on the floor, with Martin in the middle, they succeeded in mastering the old Samson, and binding him hand and foot with a rope they had brought for Gerard. He saw the man had made his way to Margaret's room during the struggle, and here was he powerless. "You shan't use them." "It is my belief, mates, that our lives were scarce safe while this old fellow's bones were free." "He makes me think this Gerard is not far off," put in another. Jorian Ketel is a long time in that girl's bedroom. |