All that confidence, born of irony, disappeared; and fear laid hold of him. Gosse must now fight with his back to the altar, and a dais at his heels. Folding his arms, he placed his back against the door, and burst into a loud laugh. He tried not to think—of Ruth with her mother's locket, of her misguided father, taking his lonely way to sea. Nothing disheartened by this survey, Jack set to work upon the lock, which he attacked with all his implements;—now attempting to pick it with the nail;— now to wrench it off with the bar: but all without effect. Not many years ago, two men, employed on this duty, quarrelled during the night, and in the morning their bodies were found stretched upon the pavement of the yard beneath. ‘By traitors I am surrounded!’ ‘Stop talking utter twaddle,’ ordered Roding, marching up to the desk. The roof was partially untiled; the chimneys were tottering; the side-walls bulged, and were supported by a piece of timber propped against the opposite house; the glass in most of the windows was broken, and its place supplied with paper; while, in some cases, the very frames of the windows had been destroyed, and the apertures were left free to the airs of heaven. Sheppard," said Wood, glancing round the chamber, as he expanded his palms before the scanty flame.
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