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Freda was by this time getting too much accustomed to the shifts and surprises of the smugglers' haunt to be greatly alarmed by the discovery that she was not alone in the underground chamber. Besides, her indignation against Thurley gave her a fellow-feeling with even the most lawless of the men he had been sent to spy upon. So she cried out in a clear voice:
"It is I, Freda Mulgrave; I have come down here to escape being carried off to London by John Thurley. Who are you?"