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The Fair Maid of Perth

CHAPTER IV
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He heard a suppressed whisper and a bustle under the glover's windows--those very windows from which he had expected to be hailed by Catharine as her Valentine.

He kept to the opposite side of the street, that he might reconnoitre their number and purpose.

But one of the party who were beneath the window, observing or hearing him, crossed the street also, and taking him doubtless for one of the sentinels, asked, in a whisper, "What noise was yonder, Kenneth?
why gave you not the signal ?" "Villain," said Henry, "you are discovered, and you shall die the death." As he spoke thus, he dealt the stranger a blow with his weapon, which would probably have made his words good, had not the man, raising his arm, received on his hand the blow meant for his head.

The wound must have been a severe one, for he staggered and fell with a deep groan.
Without noticing him farther, Henry Smith sprung forward upon a party of men who seemed engaged in placing a ladder against the lattice window in the gable.

Henry did not stop ether to count their numbers or to ascertain their purpose.


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