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I was destined, however, to be disappointed, for I received that very evening a note from the general himself, enclosing a handsome fee for my single visit, and informing me that my treatment had done him so much good that he considered himself to be convalescent, and would not trouble me to see him again. This was the last and only communication which I ever received from the tenant of Cloomber.
"Well, if that don't lick cock-fighting!" he exclaimed, contemplating me with admiration. "I never heard tell of such a thing." "And now you have found me, Corporal Smith," said the tenant of Cloomber, "what is it that you want of me?" "Why, everything. I want a roof to cover me, and clothes to wear, and food to eat, and, above all, brandy to drink."
I was silting at the open porch in the gloaming, turning over in my mind the unexpected events which had occurred so rapidly the gale, the wreck, the rescue, and the strange character of the castaways when my sister came quietly over to me and put her hand in mine. "Don't you think, Jack." she said, in her low, sweet voice, "that we are forgetting our friends over at Cloomber?
That was the conclusion which I came to at the time, and I have reason to know now that I was right, and that my sister had even more cause than I had myself for believing that there was something uncanny about the tenants of Cloomber.
But this danger this shadowy, unspeakable danger which appeared to rise up at every turn, and to hang day and night over the towers of Cloomber! Rack my brain as I would, I could not conjure up any solution to the problem which was not puerile and inadequate. One fact struck me as being significant.
The arrival of the new family at Cloomber Hall had no perceptible effect in relieving the monotony of our secluded district, for instead of entering into such simple pleasures as the country had to offer, or interesting themselves, as we had hoped, in our attempts to improve the lot of our poor crofters and fisherfolk, they seemed to shun all observation, and hardly ever to venture beyond the avenue gates.
He was shocked at the idea of our killing a sheep, or even a fish for his benefit said he would rather die than have a hand in taking the life of an animal." "It is very foolish of me to be so nervous," said my sister bravely. "But you must promise me one thing, Jack. You will go up to Cloomber in the morning, and if you can see any of them you must tell them of these strange neighbours of ours.
Over the whole countryside and as far away as the English border there was nothing but gossip about the new tenants of Cloomber Hall and the reasons which had led them to come among us. The only hypothesis, however, which the bucolic mind could evolve, was that which had already occurred to Mr.
My father had come down one morning with the weight of a great determination upon his brow. "You must put on your pink frock to-day, Esther," said he, "and you, John, you must make yourself smart, for I have determined that the three of us shall drive round this afternoon and pay our respects to Mrs. Heatherstone and the general." "A visit to Cloomber," cried Esther, clapping her hands.
I made the promise to allay my sister's apprehensions, but in the bright sunlight of morning it appeared less than absurd to imagine that our poor vegetarian castaways could have any sinister intentions, or that their advent could have any effect upon the tenant of Cloomber.
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