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Updated: May 23, 2025
By five in the afternoon of the 22nd, when I left my train in Maida Vale, and drove alone to the solitary house on high ground near Hampstead Heath which I had chosen, the work was well finished. The great morning dawned, and I was early a-stir: for I had much to do that day.
But the day passed, off, and they sent out men to seek for him: and another and all Burleigh was a-stir: and another and the coast-guards from Lyme to Plymouth Sound searched every hole and corner: and another when his mother wept five minutes: and another when the wonder was forgotten. However, they did not put on mourning for the truant: he might turn up yet: perhaps he was at Oxford.
The steeples rang out merrily, full chime; High street was gay with streamers; the town-band busily assembling; a host of happy urchins from emancipated schools, were shouting in all manner of keys all manner of gleeful noises: every body seemed a-stir.
"He must learn, sir, as I do," answered Robin; "and my duty calls me to attend on you, particularly when strange people are a-stir." "You are to be my champion, Robin?" "Your servant, sir. A servant who learned his duty before it was the fashion for servants to forget what they owe their masters. Alack! alack! service now, like liberty, is but a name, and servants do as they please."
"You know all the boundaries of the Atterson farm, do you?" Hiram asked. "Yes, sir!" replied Henry, eagerly. "And say! do you like to fish?" "Of course; who doesn't?" "Then we'll take some lines and hooks along and mother'll lend us a pan and kettle. Say! We'll start early 'fore anybody's a-stir and I bet there'll be a big trout jumping in the pool under the big sycamore."
Hardly touching the dainties which the hospitable old landlady had provided, he strolled off to the wood, almost before Ildown was a-stir, and sat down in a place, not far from the King's Oak, in a green hollow, where he was sheltered from sight by the broad tree trunks, and the tall and graceful ferns.
If you look up at the belfry, you will see them swing and dance in a very delirium of ecstasy, such as made everybody laugh while he listened, and chased away the possibility of sorrow, and thrilled the very atmosphere with an impression of hilarity and triumph. All Orton is a-stir. Mr Kennedy is the squire of the parish, and the villagers may well love him as they do.
"What time was the child's disappearance discovered?" "At a quarter to five in the morning," answered Mrs. Morden; "before any one in the house was a-stir. My darling has always been in the habit of waking at that hour, to take a little milk, which is left in a glass by her bedside.
I woke at the usual time, and rose, in order to give her the milk, and when I looked at her cot, I saw that it was empty. The child was gone. The silk coverlet and one blanket had disappeared with her. I gave the alarm immediately, and in a quarter of an hour the whole household was a-stir."
THE steeples rang out merrily, full chime; High street was gay with streamers; the town-band busily assembling; a host of happy urchins from emancipated schools, were shouting in all manner of keys all manner of gleeful noises: every body seemed a-stir.
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