CHAPTER XXVI 



MARSHLAND AND SEA 



It will be remembered that the night of the fifth 

 of April was the date of the kidnapping of Mr 

 Giveen. Early in the morning of the sixth 

 Mr Dashwood awoke from his slumbers with a 

 start, looked around him, and remembered. 



The cottage contained only two bedrooms 

 and a hving-room. He had taken a bed the night 

 before from one of the bedrooms and dragged 

 it in front of the living-room door, which was 

 also the hall door. Here he had slept, hterally 

 making a barrier of his body to the escape of 

 Giveen. 



His first thought was of his prisoner, but he 

 was reassured as to his safety by loud snores 

 coming from the bedroom where he had deposited 

 him the night before. The morning reflections 

 of Mr Dashwood, as he lay watching the mournful 

 dawn breaking through the diamond-paned 

 window, were not of the most cheerful description. 



In seizing the body of Mr Giveen and forcibly 

 deporting it from London to Essex he had broken 

 the law. The fact that Giveen was an enemy of 

 French's, and about to do him a cruel injury, 



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