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"Oh," said Louis, delighted, "you are as clever at finding hidie-holes in Hertford House as you used to be in the brows of the Abbey Water!" "Draw the curtains closer," said Patsy, "or we shall have your Mrs. Arlington spying us out and carrying you off with a single wave of her fan. She reminds me of Circe a fat, curly-wurly Circe like that picture Uncle Ju brought back from Italy.
It was a presence as quick, as agile, but more perfectly acquainted with the hidie-holes of the farmyard in fact, Boyd Connoway. Long before the others I got my eyes on him, and with the joy of a boy when a visitor enters the school at the dreariest hour of lessons, I rushed after him. To my surprise he went round the angle of the barn like a shot. But I had played at that game before.
I thought it was too big a force to be sent after the three of us." "Fergus and Agnew are still away, then?" queried Patsy, sure that they were. Stair grinned. "They are in the heather, like myself," he chuckled, "but neither of them has such a choice of hidie-holes as I have.
The White Free Traders had established a post there to watch over one of their best "hidie-holes," even though they had removed all their goods in expectation of the visit of a troop of horse under Captain Sinclair, known to have been ordered up from Dumfries to aid the excise supervisor, as soon as that zealous officer was sure that, the steed being stolen, it was time to lock the stable door.
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