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If you have any friends at Great Keynes, for the love you bear to them, come quickly." Anthony turned the note over; it was unsigned, and undated.
All the old charm seemed to envelop him in a moment as he saluted her with all the courtesy of which he was capable. "Ah!" she cried, "how happy I am to see you again those dear days at Great Keynes!" And she took both his hands with such ardour that poor Anthony was almost forced to think that he had never been out of her thoughts since. "How can I serve you, Mistress Corbet?" he asked.
Then soon they fell to talking of Lady Maxwell and Great Keynes, where it seemed that Mr. Buxton had stayed more than once. "I knew Sir Nicholas well," he said, "God rest his soul. It seems to me he is one of those whose life continually gave the lie to men who say that a Catholic can be no true Englishman. There never beat a more loyal heart than his."
Things must be desperate if her father could speak like that. He had not hinted a word of this during that silent strenuous ride they had had together when he had called for her suddenly at Great Keynes earlier in the afternoon. She saw Ralph give a quick stare at his father, and drop his eyes again. "You are very generous, sir," he said almost immediately, "but I do not ask for a bribe."
Anthony quietly called up Robert, and explained the plan. He was a lad of a Catholic family at Great Keynes, perfectly fearless and perfectly devoted to the Church and to the priest he served. He nodded his head briskly with approval as the plan was explained. "Of course it may all be nothing," ended Anthony, "and then you will think me a poor fool?" The lad grinned cheerfully.
It was crossed by husbandmen wherever a village or a farm stood upon its banks. Perhaps the highest point at which it had to be crossed at one chosen spot is to be discovered in the word Somerford Keynes, but the ease with which the water itself could be traversed is apparent rather in the absence than in the presence of names of this sort upon the upper Thames.
Dent pecked a little in the air with pursed lips and eyes fixed on the ground; and a vision of the pulpit at Great Keynes moved before Anthony's eyes. "Yes, yes, yes," he said; "I understand I quite understand." Before Mr. Dent took his leave he unburdened himself of what he had really come to say.
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