? ? ? ? "Very good, sir. If I must I must."
? ? ? ? "And you go in disgrace. By thunder, you may well be ashamed of yourself. Your family has lived with mine for over a hundred years under this roof, and here I find you deep in some dark plot against me."
? ? ? ? "No, no, sir; no, not against you!" It was a woman's voice, and Mrs. Barrymore, paler and more horror-struck than her husband, was standing at the door. Her bulky figure in a shawl and skirt might have been comic were it not for the intensity of feeling upon her face.
? ? ? ? "We have to go, Eliza. This is the end of it. You can pack our things," said the butler.
? ? ? ? "Oh, John, John, have I brought you to this? It is my doing, Sir Henry -- all mine. He has done nothing except for my sake and because I asked him."
? ? ? ? "Speak out, then! What does it mean?"
? ? ? ? "My unhappy brother is starving on the moor. We cannot let him perish at our very gates. The light is a signal to him that food is ready for him, and his light out yonder is to show the spot to which to bring it."
? ? ? ? "Then your brother is --"
? ? ? ? "The escaped convict, sir -- Selden, the criminal.
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