Part 9 (2/2)
”I--want--you, young lady!” alet Salvo into trouble!” and she raised a black and withered hand in warning, ”or trouble shall be upon your head!”
”Salvo!”
”Tony Salvo! Liza has spoken!” and the old gypsy turned away, after giving Cora a look such as the young girl was not apt soon to forget
But Cora went straight on to the police station
CHAPTER VIII
THE BEGINNING OF THE END
Cora was pale and frightened Jack and Ed had already reached the office of the country squire, where that official had taken the sulky prisoner Walter went back to the cottage to assure the young girls there that everything would ultiy eyebrows the ypsy woery that looks and scowls could iive in to such lawbreakers
”Do you recognize the prisoner?” asked the officer
”As well as I can tell froirl, in a steadied voice
”What about him do you remember?”
”The beard, and the fact that he is laive the alarrunted, ”fired--to give--the alar, eh?” deive us the whole story”
Again the man cast that swift, fierce look at Cora, but her eyes were diverted from him
”The first ti ere returning froe He had that peculiar stoop of the shoulders”
”He's got that, all right,” agreed the squire
”The next tiht, about ht in the hall I saw a ain I saw the figure under the ”
Cora paused Soht's exciteot to say for yourself, Tony?” asked the squire
”Not guilty,” growled the ht, and when the old folks were packing up I got kicked with that big bay horse
Ouch!” and he rubbed the injured leg
”Looks funny, though, doesn't it, Tony?”
Jack and Ed were talking to Cora ”If you have finished with us, Squire Redding, ill leave,” said Ed ”My sister is not used to this sort of thing”
”Certainly, certainly,” agreed the squire politely ”I auess ill hold Tony for the grand jury