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Diana of the Crossways

CHAPTER VIII
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Approaching it, the old man requested him to 'bide a bit,' and stalked the ascent at long strides.

A vigorous old fellow.

Redworth waited below, observing how he joined the group at the lighted door, and, as it was apparent, put his question of the whereabout of The Crossways.

Finally, in extreme impatience, he walked up to the group of spectators.

They were all, and Andrew Hedger among them, the most entranced and profoundly reverent, observing the dissection of a pig.
Unable to awaken his hearing, Redworth jogged his arm, and the shake was ineffective until it grew in force.
'I've no time to lose; have they told you the way ?' Andrew Hedger yielded his arm.


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