Whereabouts is the dwelling of my kinsman, Major
Molineux?"
The stranger, instead of attempting to force his passage, stepped
back into the moonlight, unmuffled his face, and stared full into that
of Robin.
"Watch here an hour, and Major Molineux will pass by," said he.
Robin gazed with dismay and astonishment on the unprecedented
physiognomy of the speaker. The forehead with its double prominence,
the broad hooked nose, the shaggy eyebrows, and fiery eyes, were those
which he had noticed at the inn, but the man's complexion had
undergone a singular, or, more properly, a two-fold change. One side
of the face blazed an intense red, while the other was black as
midnight, the division line being in the broad bridge of the nose; and
a mouth which seemed to extend from ear to ear was black or red, in
contrast to the color of the cheek. The effect was as if two
individual devils, a fiend of fire and a fiend of darkness, had united
themselves to form this infernal visage. The stranger grinned in
Robin's face, muffled his parti-colored features, and was out of sight
in a moment.
"Strange things we travellers see!" ejaculated Robin.
He seated himself, however, upon the steps of the church-door,
resolving to wait the appointed time for his kinsman.
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