“And we by you,” said Jinny; and was gone.
Elizabeth’s thoughts, following her, went back to John Baring, traveling the same dark road.
“He led ’em here to deceive ’em!” Mammy Sheldon’s shrill old voice had cried.
She saw him again standing in his doorway. She saw the moonlight and the torchlight and the horsemen, and heard the rumbling guns.
“It was putting his brave head into a noose,” said Elizabeth. Then she remembered the cry of the old woman on the side road. “Why, you’re his image!”
“I’m glad of that!” said Elizabeth to herself.
TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE:
Obvious typographical errors have been corrected.