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"I sailed out this evening, hired a boat at Brancaster Staithe. The fellow wouldn't go anywhere near Market Burnham, though, and I'm rather sorry I tried to make him. They've got the scares here, right enough, Granet. I asked him to let me the boat for a week and he wasn't even civil about it. Didn't want no strangers around these shores, he told me.
"I've never been to Brancaster in my life but I've promised one or two fellows to go down to the Dormy House there, to-morrow or the next day, and have a week's golf. Geoff Anselman is going, for one." The girl was for a moment almost good-looking. Her eyes glowed, her tone was eloquently appealing. "You'll come by and see us, won't you?" she begged.
However, the air is beautiful, and the golfer who makes his headquarters at this place enjoys the material advantage of having three or four other first-class links within easy reach. For example, there is Brancaster, which, though a long distance from any railway station, is worth any amount of trouble that may be expended on the journey.
And how, farther north again, at Brancaster, there are forests of oak, and fir, and alder, with their roots still in the soil, far below high-water mark, and only uncovered at low tide; which is a plain sign that there the land has sunk.
Geraldine welcomed her unexpected visitor that afternoon cordially enough but a little shyly. "I thought that you were going to stay at Brancaster for a week," she remarked, as they shook hands. "We meant to stay longer," Granet admitted, "but things went a little wrong. First of all there was this Zeppelin raid. Then my arm didn't go very well.
I was in the service of the late Lord Brancaster at the time, a gentleman who owned a parrot to which he was greatly devoted, and one day the bird chanced to be lethargic, and his lordship, with the kindly intention of restoring it to its customary animation, offered it a portion of seed cake steeped in the '84 port.
Her drawing is good, her observation is close and accurate, and she shows year by year an improvement in design. Miss Nichols was for several years the only lady fellow of the Royal Society of Painter-Etchers." Her "Brancaster Staithe" and "Fir Trees, Crown Point," dry points, are in the Norwich Art Gallery, presented by Sir Seymour Haden, president of the Royal Society of Painter-Etchers.
I am talking about the autumn and winter now, you must remember." "It doesn't sound attractive," Granet admitted. "By-the-bye, which side of Norfolk are you? You are nowhere near Brancaster, I suppose?" "We are within four miles of it," the girl replied quickly. "You don't ever come there, do you?" Granet looked at her with uplifted eyebrows. "This is really rather a coincidence!" he exclaimed.
Wasn't it better to have stayed down at Brancaster for a little longer?" "Perhaps," his nephew assented. "My arm came on a little rocky and I had to chuck golf. Apart from that, I wasn't altogether comfortable about things at Market Burnham.
Newquay Good holes at Deal Littlestone Rye The advantage of Cromer Brancaster Hunstanton Sheringham Redcar Seaton Carew St. Anne's Formby Wallasey Inland courses Sunningdale A splendid course Another at Walton Heath Huntercombe London links Courses in the country Sheffield Manchester Huddersfield "Inland" courses at the seaside A warning.
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