[Jeanne of the Marshes by E. Phillips Oppenheim]@TWC D-Link bookJeanne of the Marshes CHAPTER X 14/15
What he is doing up there now with this man what's staying with him, there's none can tell. Maybe they gamble at cards, maybe they just sit and look at one another, but 'tis a strange sort of life anyhow." "I think it is a very interesting place to live in," Jeanne said.
"What became of the siren which warned the smugglers ?" "There's no one here as can tell that, miss," the man answered, "There are them as have fancied on windy nights as they've heerd it, but fancy it have been, in my opinion.
Five and twenty years have gone since I've heerd it mysen, and there's few 'as better ears." "Mr.Andrew de la Borne is not here now, is he ?" she asked. The fisherman shook his head. "Mr.Andrew," he said, "is mortal afraid of strangers and such like, and there's photographers and newspaper men round in these parts just now, by reason of the disappearance of this young lord that you heerd tell on.
Some say he was drowned, and I have heerd folk whisper about a duel with the gentleman as is with Mr.Cecil now.
Anyway, it was here that he disappeared from, and though I've not seen it in print, I've heerd as his brother is offering a reward of a thousand pounds to any as might find him.
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