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'I have mentioned to Faith Julian that we shall be there. 'Mentioned it already! You must have written instantly. 'I had a few minutes to spare, and I thought I might as well write. 'Very well; we will stick to Knollsea, said Ethelberta, half in doubt. 'Yes otherwise it will be difficult to see about aunt's baptismal certificate.
'I must go on with you, he said, getting into the vehicle. 'He's gone. 'Where to Knollsea? said Sol. 'Yes, said Mountclere. 'Now, go ahead to Knollsea! he shouted to the man. 'To think I should be fooled like this! I had no idea that he would be leaving so soon! We might perhaps have been here an hour earlier by hard striving.
'Then go home and tell your mother that ye be no wide-awake boy, and that old John, who went to school with her father afore she was born or thought o', says so. . . . Chok' it all, why should I think there's sommat going on at Knollsea?
He watched Picotee and her brother off the premises, and the pair went on their way towards Exonbury Crescent, very few words passing between them. Picotee's thoughts had turned to the proposed visit to Knollsea, and Joey was sulky under disappointment and the blank of thwarted purposes.
Returning by way of Knollsea, where she remained a week or two, Ethelberta appeared one evening at the end of September before her house in Exonbury Crescent, accompanied by a pair of cabs with the children and luggage; but Picotee was left at Knollsea, for reasons which Ethelberta explained when the family assembled in conclave.
'What slap-dash jinks may there be going on at Knollsea, then, my sonny? said the hostler to the lad, as the dogcart and the backs of the two men diminished on the road. 'You be a Knollsea boy: have anything reached your young ears about what's in the wind there, David Straw?
Relinquishing the horses to the small stable-lad, the old hostler again looked out from the arch. A young man had stepped from the omnibus, and he came forward. 'I want a conveyance of some sort to take me to Knollsea, at once. Can you get a horse harnessed in five minutes? 'I'll make shift to do what I can master, not promising about the minutes. The truest man can say no more.
About half-an-hour before sunset the two individuals, linked by their differences, reached the point of railway at which the branch to Sandbourne left the main line. They had taken tickets for Sandbourne, intending to go thence to Knollsea by the steamer that plied between the two places during the summer months making this a short and direct route.
'Knollsea is an abominable place to get into with an east wind blowing, they say. Another circumstance conspired to make their landing more difficult, which Mountclere knew nothing of. With the wind easterly, the highest sea prevailed in Knollsea Bay from the slackening of flood-tide to the first hour of ebb.
She accordingly gave Sol and Dan directions for their guidance to Paris and back, starting herself with Cornelia the next day to return again to Knollsea, and to decide finally and for ever what to do in the vexed question at present agitating her.
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