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In the meantime the hounds had been secured in one of Mr. Twentyman's barns. What was that object of interest shall be told in the next chapter. Goarly's Revenge The Senator and Morton followed close on the steps of Lord Rufford and Captain Glomax and were thus able to make their way into the centre of the crowd.
Then four or five rode up to the huntsman and told him that the fox had been seen heading for the gorse. Tony said not a word but bit his lips and scratched his head and bethought himself what fools men might be even though they did ride well to hounds. One word of explanation would have settled it all, but he would not speak that word till he whispered it to Captain Glomax.
"For heaven's sake get those fellows away from that side, Glomax." This was uttered with so much vehemence that the Senator looked up in surprise. Then the Captain galloped round the side of the covert, and, making use of some strong language, stopped the ardour of certain gentlemen who were in a hurry to get away on what they considered good terms.
Captain Glomax was speaking in a somewhat dictatorial voice, as becomes a Master of Hounds when in the field, though perhaps it should be dropped afterwards when the Attorney entered. There was a sudden rise of voices striving to interrupt the Captain, as it was felt by them all that Mr. Masters must be in possession of information; but the Captain himself went on.
After that the Senator's conduct was discussed, and they all agreed that in the whole affair that was the most marvellous circumstance. "They must be queer people over there," said Larry. "Brutes!" said Glomax. "They once tried a pack of hounds somewhere in one of the States, but they never could run a yard." There was a good deal of wine drank, which was not unusual at Lord Rufford's dinners.
"The dogs can't be brought out without servants to mind them! They're what you call gamekeepers." Morton was explaining that the men were not gamekeepers when Captain Glomax himself arrived, driving a tandem. There was no road up to the spot, but on hunt mornings, or at any rate when the meet was at the old kennels, the park-gates were open so that vehicles could come up on the green sward.
Runciman and Doctor Nupper. Captain Glomax had got into it and came up afterwards wet through, with temper by no means improved. But the glory of the day had been the way in which Lord Rufford's young bay mare, who had never seen a brook before, had flown over it with the Major on her back, taking it, as Larry afterwards described, "just in her stride, without condescending to look at it.
But Dick viewed him; and with many holloas and much blowing of horns, and prayers from Captain Glomax that gentlemen would only be so good as to hold their tongues, and a full-tongued volley of abuse from half the field against an unfortunate gentleman who rode after the escaping fox before a hound was out of the covert, they settled again to their business.
"We must proceed against that man Scrobby," said Glomax with all the authority of a Master. "You'll never convict him on Goarly's evidence," said the Lord. Then Larry could give them further information. Nickem had positively traced the purchase of the red herrings. An old woman in Rufford was ready to swear that she herself had sold them to Mrs. Scrobby.
"I don't know what is to be done with a country like this," said Captain Glomax, who, as an itinerant, was not averse to cast a slur upon the land of his present sojourn. "I don't remember anything like it on my property before," said the lord, standing up for his own estate and the county at large. "Nor in the hunt," said young Hampton. "Of course such a thing may happen anywhere.
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