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The thought of it disturbed his sleep for weeks. In the end he decided to make a clean breast to Mr Rattenbury, as between man and man; and encountering him one afternoon on the Lealand road, drew up old Dapple and made sign that he wished to speak. It's about Mrs Tresize he began. 'You've heard, then? said Mr Rattenbury. 'Heard what? 'Why, that I'm going to marry her.
Goes quietly to bed he does, and just as I'm thinking to do the same, be shot if Cornelius hasn't beaten up with a foul wind, dodged the cutter, and nipped into Lealand Cove, where somebody has two score of pack horses waiting 'Pack horses? 'Yes, the old game. It hasn't been played before in my time, and my men had almost forgotten the trick of it.
'There has been a run, and an infernally daring one, said Mr Rattenbury; 'in Lealand Cove, not half an hour ago. And the deuce of it is we had warning of it all along. 'Warning? echoed Mrs Tresize, with a touch of anxiety in her voice. 'Yes, ma'am.
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