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Updated: June 12, 2025
Of course every soul in the place knew that he was at the bottom of it all the dons getting the news through the gyps but no one in authority was smart enough to bring anything home to him. He even took to keeping lectures and chapels, which piece of pharisaism put, to our mind then, the finishing touch of this comedy of revenge.
A little later in the morning you may meet a few gyps and bedmakers coming round chance corners, or descending mysterious stairs; but if you go beyond inhabited precincts, down to the river-side, you are almost sure to be quite alone; you may stand, as Christian was accustomed to do, on any one of the bridges which connect the college buildings and college grounds, and see nothing but the little robin hopping about and impressing tiny footprints after yours in the path, then flying on to the branches of the nearest willow, which, heavy with a weight that is not leaves, but snow, dips silently into the silenced water.
"I know it. We saw them at the encampment." "But if Ruth is still with them," Tom said, "Peck will get her. He said he knew how to handle Gyps. He's been used to them all his life. And this tribe often come through this region, he told me." "Who is Mr. Peck?" asked Helen, puzzled. Tom told her of his adventures on the previous night.
Smart girl, Ruthie," was Master Tom's comment. "Now tell a fellow all about it." The girls did so, while Ruth lit the alcohol lamp and made the tea. Tom was ravenous nothing could spoil that boy's appetite. "Gyps., sure enough," was his comment. "But what you heard them say wasn't much." "They'd been robbing somebody or were going to rob," said Helen, shaking her head.
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