[Kilgorman by Talbot Baines Reed]@TWC D-Link bookKilgorman CHAPTER TWELVE 4/16
What had I to fear? What worse could happen to me in the house of my birth than out here on the pitiless hillside? Even when I found the avenue-gate locked and barred I did not repent. It was easily climbed. Soon I came under the grim walls, and, as if to greet me, a wandering ray of the moon came out and fell on the window above the hall-door.
It even surprised me how little fear I felt as I now hauled myself up by the creepers and clambered on to the porch.
But here my triumph reached its limit. The window this time was closely barred.
His honour had no doubt guessed how, on my former visits, I had found entrance, and had taken this means to thwart my next.
No shaking or pulling was of any avail. Kilgorman, by that way at least, was unassailable. Yet I was not to be thwarted all at once.
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