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A Rogue’s Life

CHAPTER XV
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I made the best excuse I could; and gently insisted on her trying to sleep a little after being awake all night.

She lay back in her corner; and Mrs.Baggs, comforted with a morning dram in her tea, fell asleep again.

I had thus an hour's leisure before me to think what I should do next.
Screw was not in company with the runner this time.

He must have managed to identify me somewhere, and the officer doubtless knew my personal appearance well enough now to follow and make sure of me without help.
That I was the man whom he was tracking could not be doubted: his disguise and his position on the top of the coach proved it only too plainly.
But why had he not seized me at once?
Probably because he had some ulterior purpose to serve, which would have been thwarted by my immediate apprehension.

What that purpose was I did my best to fathom, and, as I thought, succeeded in the attempt.


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