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Updated: June 24, 2025
Her energies collected and fermented anew by the results of the vigil, Ethelberta left town for Knollsea, where she joined Picotee the same evening. Picotee produced a letter, which had been addressed to her sister at their London residence, but was not received by her there, Mrs. Chickerel having forwarded it to Knollsea the day before Ethelberta arrived in town.
'I hope I shall be able to get home to-night, said a Knollsea woman. 'My little children be left alone. Your mis'ess is in a bad way, too isn't she, skipper? 'Yes. 'And you've got the doctor from Sandbourne aboard, to tend her? 'Yes. 'Then you'll be sure to put into Knollsea, if you can? 'Yes. Don't be alarmed, ma'am. We'll do what we can. But no one must boast.
'We must be off: it may be a dirty night. Sol and Mountclere went on board, and the pier receded in the dusk. 'Shall we have any difficulty in getting into Knollsea Bay? said Mountclere. 'Not if the wind keeps where it is for another hour or two. 'I fancy it is shifting to the east'ard, said Sol. The captain looked as if he had thought the same thing.
Some of Lord Mountclere's party, including himself and Ethelberta, wandered now into a cool dungeon, partly open to the air overhead, where long arms of ivy hung between their eyes and the white sky. While they were here, Lady Jane Joy and some other friends of the viscount told Ethelberta that they were probably coming on to Knollsea.
I may tell you, then, that an old tale is flying about the neighbourhood that Lord Mountclere was privately married to another woman, at Knollsea, this morning early. Can it be true? 'I believe it to be true. 'And that she is of no family? 'Of no family. 'Indeed. Then the Lord only knows what will become of the poor thing. There will be murder between 'em. 'Between whom?
The Imperial Archaeological Association holds its meetings in that part of Wessex this season, and Corvsgate Castle, near Knollsea, is one of the places on our list." Then he hoped I should be able to attend. Did you ever hear anything so strange?
Neigh that we were going to Knollsea for a time, feeling that he would not be likely to know anything about such an out-of-the-way place, when Lord Mountclere, who was near, said, "I shall be at Enckworth Court in a few days, probably at the time you are at Knollsea.
Tipman, you must go to Knollsea; don't send, but go yourself, as I wish nobody else to be concerned in this. Go to Knollsea, and find out when the steamboat for Cherbourg starts; and when you have done that, I shall want you to send Taylor to me. I wish Captain Strong to bring the Fawn round into Knollsea Bay.
This was the time of year to know the truth about the inner nature and character of Knollsea; for to see Knollsea smiling to the summer sun was to see a courtier before a king; Knollsea was not to be known by such simple means.
The only course left open to them now, short of giving up the undertaking, was to go by the road along the shore, which, curving round the various little creeks and inland seas between their present position and Knollsea, was of no less length than thirty miles.
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