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Leaving the battered Three Graces to their different dances, Pretty picked up the knife he had knocked from the hand of the third, and sauntered homeward, adjusting his somewhat ruffled collar and tie as he went, with magnificent self-possession. On his way he met the party of rescuers sent to him by Enid, who had managed to reach town in rapid time.
I don't pretend to know why," Tommy turned away from the map, and one could see that he was not interested. "It's a mystery," exclaimed Enid. "Get to work, Bet Baxter. The mystery of the treasure map! We'll give you a week to solve the problem." "Don't do it, Bet, please don't! If you go mooning away about treasures and all that sort of thing, we'll miss half the fun of the ranch.
"Would you impose your vile body upon the henchmen of the stars?" The Prophet got up again and leaned against the wall. "I feel unwell," he said in a low voice. "Exceedingly unwell. I regret that I must really be going." Lady Enid did not seem to regret this abrupt indisposition. Perhaps she thought that she had already accomplished her purpose.
"It reminds me of pictures I've seen of colonies of seals basking about on the rocks," she declared. "Now, Patty, put yourself in a picturesque attitude. I wish I dare ask Miss Rowe to let down her lovely hair, I'm sure it would look so nice." "Violet Chambers is swimming on her back," said Enid. "I'm so glad to have the opportunity of watching her.
Therefore the pair, now that Enid was sufficiently far ahead along a footpath which led under a high, bare hedge, went forth again down the high road until, after crossing the brook, they turned to the right into Asheldham village, where, half-way between that place and New Hall, they turned up a short by-road, a cul-de-sac, at the end of which a big, old-fashioned, red-brick house of the days of Queen Anne, half hidden by a belt of high Scotch firs, came into view.
"You might have been drowned if it hadn't been for us!" exclaimed Cissie Gardiner, hysterically. "Hardly that, while I was standing by," remarked Miss Latimer, with a smile. "But Patty has given you such good practice in rescuing a drowning person, that you ought to be quite grateful to her." "Oh, Patty, you did look funny! You came up spouting like a whale!" said Enid.
He shot a swift glance at his colleague before he opened the paper. One look and he had mastered the contents. Then the swift glance was directed from Walker to the girl standing there looking at Bell with a world of passionate entreaty and longing in her eyes. "It is your sister who lies there," Bell whispered, meaningly, "and yet you " He paused, and Enid nodded.
She was raking the earth that had been spaded up the day before, and making furrows in which to drop seeds. From the turn of the road, by the knotty old willows, Claude saw her pink starched dress and little white sun-bonnet. He hurried forward. "Hello, are you farming?" he called as he came up to the fence. Enid, who was bending over at that moment, rose quickly, but without a start.
"I am going to tell you the story of the great sorrow that has darkened all our lives, but I shall have to go a long way back to do it," Enid said. "I go back to the troublous day of Charles, as far back as the disastrous fight at Naseby. Of course I am speaking more from a Royalist point of view, for the Littimers were always followers of the Court.
Hubert, smiling with pleasure at his host's genial tone, was amazed at the gloom which sat upon the brows of three persons in the room Florence, Enid, and the woman in black.
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