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A Dark Night’s Work

CHAPTER XIV
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Good God, Miss Wilkins! What's the matter?
You're not fainting!" He rang the bell till the rope remained in his hands.

"Here, Esther! Jerry! Whoever you are, come quick! Miss Wilkins has fainted! Water! Wine! Tell Mrs.Johnson to come here directly!" Mrs.Johnson, a kind, motherly woman, who had been excluded from the "gentleman's dinner party," and had devoted her time to superintending the dinner her husband had ordered, came in answer to his call for assistance, and found Ellinor lying back in her chair white and senseless.
"Bessy, Miss Wilkins has fainted; she has had a long journey, and is in a fidget about Dixon, the old fellow who was sentenced to be hung for that murder, you know.

I can't stop here, I must go back to those men.

You bring her round, and see her to bed.

The blue room is empty since Horner left.


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