"What pranks are you playing now?
Do you think me a fool?
What brought you here?
and what do you mean by this pantomimic nonsense, Mr.Conjurer ?" The figure, of course, made no reply, except by gesture.

It brandished the middogue, or dagger, however, and pointed it three times at his heart.

The spot upon which this strange interview occurred was perfectly clear of anything that could conceal an individual.

In fact it was an open common.

Woodward, consequently, led astray by circumstances with which the reader will become subsequently acquainted, started forward with the intention of reaching the individual whom he suspected of indulging himself in playing with his fears, or rather with jocularly intending to excite them.