Tared at her again. Then he half-closed his large, pale eyes, and tilted his h

L would find Pitt, and leave a message with him. He was acquainted

with Pitt and knew
of Pitt's share in this business. His pretext for seeking Blood must
still be that he needed medical assistance.
And at the same time that he set out, insensitive in his anxiety to
the broiling heat, to climb the heights to the north of the town,
Blood was setting out from Government House at last, having so far
eased the Governor's condition as to be permitted to depart. Being
mounted, he would, but for an unexpected delay,
have reached the stockade ahead of Nuttall, in which case several
unhappy events might have been averted.

The unexpected delay was occasioned by Miss Arabella
Bisho