41/51 No crying, young cornet!' We had lost the sound of the carriage. He remarked that the accident took away from Mr.Salter the responsibility of delivering him at Surrey House, but that he, Heriot, was bound, for Mr.Salter's sake, to conduct me to the doors; an unintelligible refinement of reasoning, to my wits. We reached our town between two and three in the morning. There was a ladder leaning against one of the houses in repair near the school. |