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A Jacobite Exile

CHAPTER 2: Denounced
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That is clearly my duty.
I shall not return until I learn whether warrants are out for my apprehension.

Of course, the evidence is not so strong against me as it is against Sir Marmaduke; still, the spy's evidence would tell as much against me as against him.
"You will go up, Harry, with your friend, to Pincot's farm.

It lies so far in the hills that it would probably be one of the last to be searched, and, if a very sharp lookout is kept there, a body of men riding up the valley would be seen over a mile away, and there would be plenty of time to take to the hills.

There Charlie had better remain, until he hears from me.
"You can return here, Harry, in the morning, for there is no probability whatever of your being included in any warrant of arrest.

It could only relate to us, who were in the habit of meeting at Sir Marmaduke's.


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