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All the rest of that day they rode slowly, but when night came, having halted their horses at a farm and given it out that they meant to push on to Woodbridge, they turned up a by-track on the lonely heath, and, unseen by any, made their through the darkness to a certain empty house in the marshes not far from Beccles town.
The high road from Bungay to Beccles ran close to the house, so close that the gable ends of the building were separated from it only by the breadth of the moat. A short, private road, not above a hundred yards in length, led to the bridge which faced the front door.
Tovell, or to Miss Elmy's widowed mother who lived not far away at Beccles, but the young lady herself returned her lover's affection from the first, and never faltered.
Another son, Edmund, was horn in the autumn of 1790, and a few weeks later a series of visits were paid by Crabbe, his wife and elder boy, to their relations at Aldeburgh, Parham, and Beccles, from which latter town, according to Crabbe's son, they visited Lowestoft, and were so fortunate as to hear the aged John Wesley preach, on a memorable occasion when he quoted Anacreon:
"She never went there," he said. That was what he had come to tell me. A natural reference to the last visit of Althea to her aunt had established the stupefying fact. "Althea's last visit was in October, 1913," said Miss Beccles. "But we have letters from your house to prove she was with you in January," said Sir Anthony.
Then he remembered his violence the night before, and the fact that the servant girl had heard if she had not seen it. He could not drop his responsibility in regard to Ruby, even if he would. So, as a first step, he sent in a message to John Crumb, at Bungay, to tell him that Ruby Ruggles had gone off with a box to Beccles.
Well, the morning after the missus was killed, I went early for I knew I'd soon be arrested to a stableman at Beccles you know old Harris and I made him swear to give a letter to Bob the moment Bob put foot in Southampton, and to nobody else. In the letter I told Bob where he was to look for so-and-so, and how he was to prove my innocence "
That of course is now very different." Vanderbank demurred. "But not for YOU, I gather is it? Don't you expect to see them?" "Oh yes I hope they'll come down." He moved away a little not straight to the door. "To Beccles? Funny place for them, a little though, isn't it?" He had put the question as if for amusement, but Nanda took it literally. "Ah not when they're invited so very very charmingly.
It was not till he made some apparently chance allusion to the superior church-attending qualities of 'our people, that Mrs Yeld drew herself up and changed the conversation by observing that there had been a great deal of rain lately. When the ladies were gone the bishop at once put himself in the way of conversation with the priest, and asked questions as to the morality of Beccles.
'I think everybody must be glad to meet him, he is such a dear, good fellow, and his wife is just as good. And there is another gentleman coming whom you have never seen. 'A new neighbour? 'Yes, a new neighbour; Father John Barham, who has come to Beccles as priest. He has got a little cottage about a mile from here, in this parish, and does duty both at Beccles and Bungay.
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