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In its madd course it bruised the side of a huge Llandudno hitched to a stout Tyn-y-Coed by the way-side. It bbroke its Bettws and leaped ynto the air. Ddeath stared us yn the face. David the whip grew ppale, and signalled to Absalom the gguard to save as many lives as he could and leave the rrest to Pprovidence. With a moan of baffled rrage, he sank to earth with a hheavy thuddw.
Then an idea seemed to seize her that she was pursued by me, as the messenger bearing my dead father's curse. The appearance of any young man bearing the remotest resemblance to me frightened her. At last, before they reached Bettws y Coed, she had escaped, and was lost among the woods.
Scoutbush was to have been with them; but a heavy day's rain in the meanwhile swelled the streams into fishing order, so the little man ordered a car, and started at three in the morning for Bettws with Mr. Bowie, who, however loth to give up the arrangement of plates and the extraction of champagne corks, considered his presence by the river-side a natural necessity.
"This 'ere fishin' brings back old Wales, don't it?" she said. "Yes," I said, "and I should love to see the old places again." "You would?" she said; and her excitement was so great that she dropped her fishing-rod in the river. "Jake Lee has been tellin' me that our people are there, all camped in the old place by Bettws y Coed.
On reaching Bettws y Coed I turned into the hotel there 'The Royal Oak' famished; for, as fast as trains could carry me, I had travelled right across England, leaving rest and meals to chance. I found the hotel full of English painters, whom the fine summer had attracted thither as usual. The landlord got me a bed in the village.
"Pont Bettws," he replied. "And what may be the name of the river?" said I. "Afon something," said he. And on my thanking him he went forward to the woman who was waiting for him by the bridge. "Is that man Welsh or English?" I heard her say when he had rejoined her. "I don't know," said the man "he was civil enough; why were you such a fool?"
'Same place, twix Bettws and Capel Curig. She had been to the bungalow, she told me, with a message from Sinfi. This message was that she particularly wished to meet me at Mrs. Davies's cottage 'not at the bungalow' on the following night. 'She'll go there to-morrow mornin', said Rhona, 'and make things tidy for you; but she won't expect you till night, same time as she met you there fust.
"And not quite unknown north of Tweed either, Bowie," said Valencia, laughing. "There now, say no more about it. We have had a delightful walk, and nobody is the least tired. Don't say any more, Mrs. Lewis: but tell them to get us some supper. Bowie, so my lord has come in?" "This half-hour good!" "Has he had any sport?" "Sport! aye, troth! Five fish in the day. That's a river indeed at Bettws!
One day as Sinfi and I were strolling through the lovely glades between Capel Curig and Bettws y Coed, on our way to a fishing-place, we sat down by a stream to eat some bread and cheese we had brought with us.
They lived happy for many years together, and he had by her a son and a daughter; and by her industry and prudent management as a housewife he became one of the richest men in the country. He farmed, besides his own freehold, all the lands on the north side of Nant y Bettws to the top of Snowdon, and all Cwm brwynog in Llanberis, an extent of about five thousand acres or upwards.
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