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There was one packet, however, which I thought might repay a careful perusal. It was a bundle of correspondence from her brother Peter." "The Canon of tragic memory," said Lulworth. "Exactly, of tragic memory, as you say; a tragedy that has never been fathomed."
"We thought that we had fooled them nicely, and that evening half a dozen of our boats sailed into Lulworth harbour and anchored there quiet. One of them rowed ashore and landed two hands to look round. They brought back news as there were only two or three revenue men left at the station, and it would be easy enough to seize them and tie them up till it was all over.
"But this was a symbolic animal," said Sir Lulworth; "if it were to typify thick or thin bread and butter surely it ought to have been either as bulky and tubby as a shire cart-horse; or as thin as a heraldic leopard." "I'm afraid you are rather a careless dreamer," said Bertie resentfully.
"Well, you see," said Sir Lulworth, "the migration idea was falling somewhat into disrepute from the half-hearted manner in which it was occasionally carried out.
"But," interposed the nephew, "how on earth did the boy account to the relatives all those months for the non-appearance " "That," said Sir Lulworth, "was the most brilliant stroke of all.
Captain Downes is getting that artful that one is never sure whether he has been got safely away or not. A fortnight ago he pretty nigh came down on a lugger that was landing a cargo in Lulworth Cove. We thought that it had all been managed well.
"Sounds more like a polecat," said Sir Lulworth. "No," said Egbert, "there were marks of webbed feet all over the place, and we followed the tracks down to the stream at the bottom of the garden; evidently an otter." Amanda looked quickly and furtively across at Sir Lulworth. Egbert was too agitated to eat any breakfast, and went out to superintend the strengthening of the poultry yard defences.
Egbert paused for a moment at the conclusion of the extract; then, as his uncle made no remark, he added: "If lack of motive was the only factor that saved Sebastien from prosecution I fancy this letter will put a different complexion on matters." "Have you shown it to anyone else?" asked Sir Lulworth, reaching out his hand for the incriminating piece of paper.
Many of the seamen employed in the Newfoundland trade of Poole, gaining the shore at Chapman's Pool or Lulworth, whiled away their stolen leisure either in the clay-pits of the Isle of Purbeck, where they defied intrusion by posting armed sentries at every point of access to their stronghold, or their favourite haunt on Portland Island, which the number and ill-repute of the labourers employed in its stone quarries rendered well-nigh impregnable.
"But the Suffragettes," interrupted the nephew; "what did they do next?" "After the bird fiasco," said Sir Lulworth, "the militant section made a demonstration of a more aggressive nature; they assembled in force on the opening day of the Royal Academy Exhibition and destroyed some three or four hundred of the pictures.
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