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The animal had one day attached itself to her while she was taking a walk on the Apethorpe road; and now, by her feeding him daily and making a pet of him, the girl and the dog had become inseparable. By long walks and short train-journeys she had, in three months, been able to inspect most of the antiquities of Northamptonshire. All these, and many others, had great attraction for her.
"You threaten me, then?" he asked, his eyes flashing for a second. "I think it is as well for us to understand one another at once," she said frankly. They had halted upon a small bridge close to the entrance to Apethorpe village. "Then I'm to understand that you refuse my proffered assistance?" he asked. "I require no assistance from my enemies," was her defiant and dignified reply.
Midway between historic Fotheringhay and ancient Apethorpe, the ancestral seat of the Earls of Westmorland, lay the long, straggling, and rather poverty-stricken village of Woodnewton.
At ten o'clock on the following morning, after making a detour, he alighted from a dogcart before the little inn called the Westmorland Arms at Apethorpe, just outside the lodge-gates of Apethorpe Hall, and making excuse to the groom that he was going for a walk, he set off at a brisk pace over the little bridge and up the hill to Woodnewton.
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