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write, and promise, if you send for her, she shall get the
note."
So, Dolly made the promise, and bringing old Tamar
with her into the study, penned these odd lines from her
dictation, merely adjusting the grammar.
"Miss Radie, Dear,— If coming down to-night from
Brandon, this is to tell you, it is as much as your life is
worth to pass the Blackberry walk above the steps. My
old eyes have seen him there, walking back and forward,
lying at catch for some one, this night — the great enemy
of man; you can suppose in what shape.
"Your dutiful and loving servant,
"Tamar."
So, old Tamar, after a little, took her departure; and it
needed a great effort to enable her to take the turn up the
dark and lonely mill-road, leading to Redman's Farm; so
much did she dread the possibility of again encountering
the person she had just described.
CHAPTER LXIX.
THE MEETING IN THE LONG POND ALLEY.
I suppose there were few waking heads at this hour in
all the wide parish of Gylingden, though many a usually
idle one was now busy enough about the great political
Btruggle which was to muster its native forces. both in
borough and county, and agitate these rural regions with
the roar and commotion of civil strife.