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Here the moon shone into a diminutive garden with box-bordered flower-beds, and half a dozen bee-skips in row against a hedge of privet, and at the end of the gravelled walk a white gate glimmering. Arthur Miles tip-toed to the gate, lifted its latch very cautiously, and held it aside for Tilda to pass. They were free. "Of all the madness!" she muttered as they made for the coombe.
The path to the door was guarded by a low fence of split-bamboo baskets that had once contained sugar from Batavia; a coffee bag from the wreck of a Dutch barque served for door-mat; a rum-cask with a history caught rain-water from the eaves; and a lapdog's pagoda a dainty affair, striped in scarlet and yellow, the jetsom of some passenger ship had been deftly adapted by Old Zeb, and stood in line with three straw bee-skips under the eastern wall.
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