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Then he swung round and, passing through the gate, came to a lighted shed where he found a man cleaning a motor car. "Any petrol to be got here?" he asked quickly. "As much as we're allowed to keep, sir," replied the man. "Send a can at once to Firtop Farm, down the road." He turned, and was quitting the shed when a word from the man recalled him. "Beg pardon, sir, but "
No one would have guessed at that dinner table that anything was amiss. Smith seemed to be in the highest spirits, talking incessantly, describing his sudden descent on Firtop Farm and his interview with the farmer so racily that his mother laughed gently, and even Kate, for all her anxiety, smiled.
Chickerel and his family now lived at Firtop Villa, in that place, a house which, like many others, had been built since Julian's last visit to the town. He was directed to the outskirts, and into a fir plantation where drives and intersecting roads had been laid out, and where new villas had sprung up like mushrooms.
The blaze, however, had soon to be fed with dry fuel, and noticing a dead firtop lying on the ground a few steps away, Jonathan took the axe and ran to break it up; and the axe strokes among the dry stuff made a considerable crackling.
"Barton, sir; Firtop Farm, Mottisfont." "What is this b-b-bill for d-d-damages you speak of?" "Why, sir, 'twas like this.
Farmer Barton was a good patriot, and the knowledge that the intruder was a navy-man sensibly moderated his truculence. "Why, this be Firtop Farm, half-a-mile from Mottisfont station, if you know where that is," he said. "Daze me if you hain't been and cut into my hayrick!" He sniffed. "And what's this horrible smell? I do believe you've spoilt the whole lot with your stinking oil."
He entered by a swing gate, on which 'Firtop' was painted, and a maid-servant showed him into a neatly- furnished room, containing Mr. Chickerel, Mrs. Chickerel, and Picotee, the matron being reclined on a couch, which improved health had permitted her to substitute for a bed.
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