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The aunt's address was furnished by a Mr. Lacon of Dullingham, an old friend of Wynne's, who also, it seems, was ignorant of the aunt's death. This aunt, a sister of Winifred's mother, named Davies, the widow of a sea captain who had once known better days, resided in an old cottage between Bettws y Coed and Capel Curig.
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.
With a shudder we saw him borne to his last rrest, for we realized that had yt not bbeen for Absalom's Capel Curig we had bbeen bburied yn an unpronounceable Welsh ggrave. We are in Bristol after a week's coaching in Wales; the Jack Copleys, Tommy Schuyler, Mrs. Jack's younger brother, and Miss Van Tyck, Mrs.
The Carnarvon postmark and the words written on the envelope, 'Try Capel Curig, showed the cause of the delay in the letter's reaching me. In the left-hand corner of the envelope were written the words 'Very urgent. Please forward immediately. I opened it, and found it to be a letter of great length. I looked at the end and gave a start, exclaiming, 'D'Arcy! This is how the letter ran:
“We had a striking instance of this some years ago, when crossing Snowdon from Capel Curig, one morning, with a friend.
'It goes wherever the Lovells go. Let us follow her. You can stay at Bettws or Capel Curig, and I can stay with Sinfi. I told her how strong was Sinfi's wish that we should not do so.
They looked about for a country home, and were fortunate enough to find the most enchanting spot in North Wales. Plas Gwynant, the shining place, stands on a rising ground surrounded by woods, at the foot of Snowdon, between Capel Curig and Beddgelert. Beyond the lawn and meadow is Dinas Lake.
Ceiniog Mawr Pentre Voelas The Old Conway Stupendous Pass The Gwedir Family Capel Curig The Two Children Bread Wonderful Echo Tremendous Walker. I WALKED on briskly over a flat uninteresting country, and in about an hour's time came in front of a large stone house.
Then I determined to address her; but I thought it would be safer to do so as a stranger than to announce myself at once as Henry. 'I beg pardon, I said, 'but is there any one at home? No answer. 'Is this the way to Capel Curig? No answer. 'Will you give me shelter? I said; and finally I gave a desperate 'halloo. My efforts had not produced the slightest effect.
'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.
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