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Carter had seen it last, except that in one of the upper windows there was a bill a large paper placard announcing that this house was to let, furnished; and that all information respecting the same was to be obtained of Mr. Hogson, grocer, Lisford. Mr. Carter gave a long whistle. "The bird's flown," he muttered. "It wasn't likely he'd stop here to be caught."
This is the young beggar who tied that rope to the scrapers; I vote we give him a jolly good licking. I told them that my father was a lawyer, and if any of them touched me he'd take a summons out against them for assault. That frightened Noaks, for you can see he's a regular coward, so he asked the others what they thought had better be done with me. "'I know, said Hogson.
'It's no use your making a row, said Hogson, 'because no one'll hear you; and if you do, summons or no summons we'll come down and give you a licking. After that they left me, and went back to the house; and as soon as they'd gone, I began to try to find some way of escape, but it was so dark inside the shed I couldn't see anything. Presently I heard a knocking on the boards.
"D'you think it's really true? or is this fellow, Lump or Bump or whatever you call him, trying to take a rise out of us, or telling lies to earn the shilling?" "I don't think so," answered Diggory, "and I'll tell you why. For some reason or other, he's at daggers drawn with young Noaks and Hogson. I think they've knocked him about, and he's doing it to pay them out."
"Well, the news is this," said the latter, speaking in the same low tone "that there Noaks and Hogson are coming up here to-night just afore nine o'clock, and they're a-going to drown your fireworks." "Drown our fireworks! why, what ever d'you mean? How do they know we've got any fireworks? and how can they get at them when they're all locked up?"
"I knew they were coming, and I'm sure I heard some one say, 'Are you ready? They're behind that hedge. We can't get through, it's too thick; but you fellows stop here, and I and Hogson and Bernard'll run down to the gate and cut off their retreat." "What shall we do?" whispered Jack; "this field's so large they'll run us down before we get to the other hedge. Shall we make a bolt and chance it?"
The pursuit, however, was evidently abandoned, and Morris, climbing on the roof of the shed, saw young Noaks and Hogson slowly retreating round the corner of the road. The three friends certainly presented a striking appearance.
"Gone," he muttered; "gone, as neat as ever a man went yet." He ran back to the fly, and drove to the establishment of Mr. Hogson, grocer and general dealer the shop of the village of Lisford. Here Mr. Carter was informed that the key of "Woodbine Cottage had been given up on the evening of that very day on which he had seen Joseph Wilmot sitting in the little parlour.
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