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At length he pulled up, and from his seat on the off-shaft sat motionless for a minute, listening. The horse, as if realising that its dreams of a warm stable were dreams indeed, hung its head dejectedly, and in the faint gleam, of the lamp its breath rose in thin vapour. The man descended from his perch on the shaft and, going to his nag's head, turned the cart off the road.
But it was not the cart, nor the carter, nor yet the mule, which attracted His Excellency's immediate attention, but the passenger seated on the customary place of the off-shaft. For a moment Baron von K could not believe his eyes.
We looked at Parker, who was peeling potatoes on the off-shaft Parker, six feet two, with a soldier's bearing and we drifted off into thought. "And who drives?" we asked, with an intelligent interest. "Oh, Parker. And we do all the rest, you know." It was seven o'clock in the evening when we joined the caravan, in a stackyard on the outskirts of an Eastern county town.
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