13/24 You could never hurt him now; and you can tell your father that you have done your duty to the king." "Well, Captain Carroway, if you are quite sure that it is too late to catch him, I can tell you all about him. But remember your word about the fifty guineas." "Every farthing, every farthing, Mary, whatever my wife may say to it. But which way did he go, I mean ?" "I will not say any thing for certain, Sir; even for fifty guineas. But he may have come up here--mind, I say not that he did--and if so, he might have set off again for Sewerby. Slowly, very slowly, because of being tired. |