I shall be
waiting.
"'RACHEL'.
"I turned and bolted toward a door, when Gardiner yelled:
"'Where are you going?'
"'To England,' said I.
"'This door, then, sir,' said a Mexican.
"I came back to the old man.
"'Rokesby,' said I, 'you have cut ten years off my life, but I forgive
you; good-by.'
"'One thing more, Mr. Hogg; don't tell 'em at home how I went--nothing
about this last deal.'
"'Well, all right; but I'll tell Rachel, if we marry and come to
America.'
"'I've got lots of honest relations, and my old mother still lives, in
her eighties.'
"'Well, not till after she goes, unless to save Rachel in some way.'
"'Good-by, Mr. Hogg, God bless you! and--and, little Rachel.'
"'Good-by, Mr. Rokesby.'
"The next day I left Mexico for God's country, and inside of ten days
was on a Cunarder, eastward bound. I reached England in proper time; I
found the proper pen in the proper train, and was deposited in the
proper town, directed to the proper house, and street, and number, and
had pulled out about four yards of wire attached to the proper bell.
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