Once only old John de Carteret spoke to the Senechal, soon after they
had started.
"One of them"--nodding over at the boats behind--"could go to the rock
and bring him off," he suggested.
"I thought of that, but there's one I want to go with me. She'll be down
at the Creux, I expect, and we'll go as soon as we've disposed of this."
There was a very different feeling visible in the silent crowd that
awaited them at the harbour this time from that manifested on the last
occasion, Then, it was a sympathetic anger that united them all in a
common feeling against the perpetrator of the deed. Now--even before the
whisper had run round that Peter Mauger had been done to death in the
same way as Tom Hamon--fear was among them, and doubt. Fear of they knew
not exactly what, and doubt of they knew not whom.
But here were two men done to death in their midst, and the man on whom
all their suspicions had settled in the first case could not possibly
have had anything to do with the second, and so had most likely had
nothing to do with either--in which case the man who had was still at
large among them, and no man's life was safe, much less any woman's or
child's.
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