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Between them they moved the stricken man to the couch, where he lay open-eyed, speechless, appealing. "We must get Dr Brandram, Raffles." "That'll puzzle you," said the boy, "a night like this, and the two 'orses at Castleridge." "Is there any chance of your mistress returning to-night?" "Not if Tom Robbins knows it. He's mighty tender of his 'orses, and a night like this "
The clock was chiming one in Castleridge Church when at length he reined up his spent horse at the stable entrance to the Grange. Here for a weary quarter of an hour he rang, called, and whistled before the glimmer of a lantern gave promise of an answer. To the stable-boy's not altogether polite inquiry, Mr Armstrong replied, "Mr Ingleton of Maxfield is ill.
He has no quarrel, therefore, with the snow, except that by its sudden arrival it will probably hold his promising pupil, Master Roger, prisoner for the night at Castleridge, where he and his mother have driven for dinner. The tutor has sufficient interest in his work to make him regret this interruption of his duties, but for the present he will console himself with Schumann.
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