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"Nay, what should this betoken?" said Dick, who was now broad
awake.
"It is some one walking," returned Matcham, and "the bell tolleth
ever as he moves."
"I see that well," said Dick. "But wherefore? What maketh he in
Tunstall Woods? Jack," he added, "laugh at me an ye will, but I
like not the hollow sound of it."
"Nay," said Matcham, with a shiver, "it hath a doleful note. An
the day were not come" -
But just then the bell, quickening its pace, began to ring thick
and hurried, and then it gave a single hammering jangle, and was
silent for a space.
"It is as though the bearer had run for a pater-noster while, and
then leaped the river," Dick observed.
"And now beginneth he again to pace soberly forward," added
Matcham.
"Nay," returned Dick--"nay, not so soberly, Jack. 'Tis a man that
walketh you right speedily. 'Tis a man in some fear of his life,
or about some hurried business. See ye not how swift the beating
draweth near?"
"It is now close by," said Matcham.


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