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Even if I got away from these fellows, where could I go to? The whole valley is a prison just as sure as the stone walls we have left behind for the moment." But scarce two minutes had passed before Jack had burst from the guard and was running at his fleetest. It happened in this way. They filed out of the courtyard and along a broad, ill-kept, dusty road passing the village.
McAlway helped with the buckles and said not a word. In ten minutes, certainly not more, we were driving together down the lane. "Do you know a family named Williams living on the north road beyond the three corners?" asked the Scotch Preacher. Instantly a vision of a somewhat dilapidated house, standing not unpicturesquely among ill-kept fields, leaped to my mind.
They entered the taxicab and were driven almost in silence to the Professor's home a large, rambling old house, situated in somewhat extensive but ill-kept grounds on the outskirts of New York. The Englishman glanced around him, as they passed up the drive, with an expression of disapproval. "A more untidy-looking place than yours, Edgar, I never saw," he declared.
Ill-kept and ill-ventilated, the air was loaded with noxious effluvia, while the various abominations that met the eye at every turn would have been sufficient to produce the distemper in any one who had come in contact with them. They were, however, utterly disregarded by the miserable sufferers and their attendants.
The back of the house to which we gained access was very dirty and ill-kept; some dirty children peeped at us as we approached, and nobody had the civility to ask us in; so we took advantage of the first cessation of the shower to resume our way. We were shortly overtaken by a very intelligent-looking and civil man, who seemed to have come from Rhyddlan, and said he was going to Rhyl.
It was at the garden gate of one of these older houses that David rang, looking about him the while at the mean irregular street and the ill-kept side-walks with their heaps of cinders and refuse. A powerfully built woman appeared, scowling, in answer to the bell. At first she flatly refused the new-comer admission. But David was prepared.
A thin, persistent drizzle was falling, the ill-kept road was wet with recent rain, and the wretched horse was jogging along at a shuffling trot at a rate of perhaps four miles an hour. "Wake up there," I cried, "and get along! I don't want to reach Richmond after midnight."
He began to enter into normal relations both with himself and with things in general. A hundred yards or so and the village green would be reached. Then on his left, behind an ill-kept quick-set hedge that guarded a strip of garden and orchard, he became aware of movement. Among the apple trees three small figures shuffled about some dark recumbent object.
They must be on the other side of the house, towards the courtyard which seems to be hemmed in by the blank walls of the other houses." "And at the front of the house?" "There is a low wall in front which shuts off the courtyard from a narrow, ill-kept street." "Yes, I see it myself now. The street is bordered mainly by gardens and vacant lots." "Yes, sir, that is it."
"I wonder why he trusts us with his boat." "He knows that no one would be foolish enough to steal it," said Jimmy; "look at it!" It was a shabby and ill-kept dory, dirty, and with half an inch of dirty water washing about in it. But we didn't care. Almost any boat is good enough when you are looking for buried treasure. We set out, with Mr. Daddles and Jimmy rowing.
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