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"There's our parson and he's a good man, though not half good enough for her why, you might as well talk to a babby three months old! If I told him, he'd only think I was crazy; and like as not he'd send for old Doctor Kenyon to come up and feel my head, same as they did wi' Shepherd Toller, Clun Downs way, before they put him in the asylum.
At last he half resolved on the desperate plan of scaring the pleasure-seekers from their camp by bombarding the ground with stones a plan which he remembered to have proved effective with a party of ladies on Clun Downs.
This put pursuers off the track, and caused them to look for him everywhere but where he was. The police were convinced, for example, that he was hiding in Clun Downs.
In the days of Toller's first madness, it had been his habit to wander over Clun Downs, equipped in this manner, He had lived in some fastness of his own devising, and supplied his larder by the occasional slaughter of a stolen sheep, whose skull he would split with a blow from the flint axe.
It was a masterpiece of protective imitation.... His implements were all of flint, neatly bound in their handles with strips of hide. There was an axe for slaughter, a dagger for cutting meat, a hammer for breaking bones, a saw and scrapers of various size the plunder of some barrow on Clun Downs."
There was nothing more after that until February 12th, when the third advertisement appeared, same code, here it is deciphered: "Car will be at Clun Cross two day February 28. Dusky Fowl." "That 'Dusky Fowl' bothered me a lot. I couldn't think what it meant.
The play was "The Humerous Lieutenant," a play that hath little good in it, nor much in the very part which, by the King's command, Lacy now acts instead of Clun. In the dance, the tall devil's actions was very pretty.
'Clun Cross. We must find out where Clun Cross is; probably it's somewhere in Northumberland, and most likely it's near Eldon Hall. I suppose, Osborne, that you are invited to the coming of age, as you know Cranmere so well?" "Yes, and I mean to go. But Berrington isn't invited; he doesn't know Cranmere."
It was a masterpiece of protective imitation, an exact replica of Toller's previous abode on Clun Downs. His fire burned only by night. The furnishing of this simple establishment consisted of a feather bed, which rested on slabs of slate supported by stones, whence obtained was never known, but undoubtedly stolen.
Stapleton's bedroom in the act of packing into a bag jewellery belonging to Lord and Lady Cranmere. Others had been run down in the woods. Several had been arrested on suspicion at Clun Cross, and upon them had been found evidence proving their identity. Six cars had been held up and their occupants taken into custody.
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