EUGENE ARAM.
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BOOK THE THIRD.
CHAPTER IX.
FRAUD AND VIOLENCE ENTER EVEN GRASSDALE.—PETER'S NEWS.—THE LOVERS' WALK.—THE REAPPEARANCE.
Auf.—"Whence comest thou—what wouldst thou?"
One evening Aram and Madeline were passing through the village in their accustomed walk, when Peter Dealtry sallied forth from the Spotted Dog, and hurried up to the lovers with a countenance full of importance, and a little ruffled by fear.
"Oh, Sir, Sir,—(Miss, your servant!)—have you heard the news? Two houses at Checkington, (a small town some miles distant from Grass-
