On the very day of
which we write, namely, the 10th of June 1715, Bolingbroke and Oxford were
impeached of high treason. Sheppard, paralysed by the threat. "What do you mean?" cried Winifred in alarm. ‘I dropped the lantern,’ Jack’s muffled voice told her. But these fears, like those he had recently experienced, speedily vanished, and
he prepared to return to the roof, congratulating himself that owing to the
opportune falling of the bricks, he had in all probability escaped serious injury. Father and daughter
regarded each other warily, each more than a little insecure with the other. In a fit of despondency, superinduced
by drunkenness, he made away with himself; and when the body was discovered,
after a lapse of some months, such was the impression produced by the spectacle
—such the alarm occasioned by the crazy state of the building, and, above all, by
the terror inspired by strange and unearthly noises heard during the night, which
were, of course, attributed to the spirit of the suicide, that the place speedily
enjoyed the reputation of being haunted, and was, consequently, entirely
abandoned. Immediately the soldiers of the
major will come from the gate. It both pleased and amused Gerald that Hilary
adhered rigidly to protocol before the men, no matter what he might say to his
major on other occasions.
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