Red spider; a novel - Tapa blanda

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1887 Excerpt: ... Piper burst into the room. "Mrs. Veale!" he exclaimed. "Well, what of Mrs. Veale?" asked Langford sharply. "She has run out, crying like an owl and flapping her arms, over the moor, till she came to Wellon's Hill." "Let her go," said Langford. "She went right into the mound," continued Piper-"breathlessly, "and when I came up she had crawled into the stone coffin inside, and had only her arm out, and she was tearing and scraping at the earth and drawing it down over the hole by which she'd gone in--burying herself alive, and wailing like an owl." "Is there any money still hid there?" asked Langford. "She screamed at me when I came up, 'Will you not leave me alone? I be poisoned! I be dying! Let me die in peace!' Whatever shall us do?" CHAPTER XXXVIII. THE LOOK-OUT STONE. One Sunday evening, a year after the events just related, Taverner Langford and Hillary Nanspian, senior, were seated in the sun on the Look-out stone, in friendly conversation. Nanspian was looking happier, more hale, and prosperous than he had appeared since his stroke. He wore the badger-skin waistcoat, and his shirt-sleeves. The waistcoat had been relined with brilliant crimson stuff; bright was the hue of the lining displayed by the lappets. Taverner Langford had not a cheerful expression; his hair was more grizzled than it was twelve months ago, and his face more livid. There was, however, a gentler light in his eyes. "It is a great change in Larry," said Nanspian. "Though I say it, there never was a steadier and better son. He is at work from morning to night, and is getting the farm into first-rate Order--you'll allow that?" "Yes," answered Langford, "I'll allow he begins well; I hope it will last. As for first-rate order, that I will not admit. 'One year's seeds, three years' weeds...