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The chars-a-bancs and the carriages of their Majesties were drawn up on the garden side of the terrace. The Emperor took Prince Metternich in his dog-cart; the Empress drove herself in her English phaeton, accompanied by the Duchess de Fernan Nunez. The rest of us were provided with big chars- a-bancs, each holding six or eight people, and had four horses ridden by two postilions.
I tell you, you just about shall go to it, ma'am, whether you care about it or not, and Arthur Alce shall take you." Thus the treat was arranged, and on Wednesday afternoon Alce drove to the door in his high, two-wheeled dog-cart, and Ellen climbed up beside him, under the supervision of Mrs. Tolhurst, whom Joanna, before setting out for market, had commissioned to "see as she went."
'Then how did you get here? 'That was the one stroke of luck I've had this afternoon. I started to walk back, and after I'd gone about a quarter of a mile, Adamson caught me up in his dog-cart. I suggested that it would be a Christian act on his part to give me a lift, and he did. I shall remember Adamson in my will. 'Tell us what happened. 'I'll tell thee everything I can, said Charteris.
His springy step never slowed until suddenly, when he was a hundred yards in front of me, he halted, and I saw him throw up his hand with a gesture of grief and despair. At the same instant an empty dog-cart, the horse cantering, the reins trailing, appeared round the curve of the road and rattled swiftly towards us. "Too late, Watson, too late!" cried Holmes, as I ran panting to his side.
'Where do he get the money from, you? 'It be curious, bean't it; I minds when his father drove folks' pigs to market. These remarks passed between two old farmers, one standing on the sward by the roadside, and the other talking to him over the low ledge, as a gentleman drove by in a Whitechapel dog-cart, groom behind.
I've a good mind to tell him of it myself; and I will, too, if I come across him. The Colonel wasn't in church again. They tell me he's turned Atheist, and loafs about all Sunday with a gun. I've seen him myself driving a dog-cart Sunday afternoons in a pot 'at, and I knew then what would come of that.
The horse shook himself and set the dog-cart swaying; the jingle of his bit went adventurously across the moor; heather-stalks scratched each other in the wind. "You haven't lighted your lamps," Helen said. "Somebody might run into you." "They might." He jumped down and fumbled for his matches. "The comfort is that we're not likely to do it to any one, at our pace.
Blank came to my help and said I could go with her in the dog-cart and we would drive to a place she knew of, and there we should have a good glimpse of the hunt as it went by. "When we got to that place I got out and went and leaned my elbows on a low stone wall which enclosed a turfy and beautiful great field with heavy wood on all its sides except ours. Mrs.
"You can't get a good view from here to-day. It's too hazy." "Go on." "But, Circe " "Be quick. I'm awfully cold." "Won't you come in and get warm before you go on, or borrow another rug, or " "No, thanks awfully, I must get home." "Mayn't I see you there? I can easily walk back." "No, thanks awfully, boy-scout." "You mean it?" "I do." "I gave her the reins and got heavily out of the dog-cart.
Goddard from the high seat. "Where is Mr. Juxon?" she asked anxiously. John looked round, peering into the gloom. A black cloud driven by the strong east wind was passing over the moon, and for some moments it was almost impossible to see anything. The squire was nowhere to be seen. John turned and helped Nellie off the back seat of the dog-cart.
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