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Updated: June 19, 2025
The Romans, those great pioneers of travel, had opened out the district eighteen centuries ago, and laid a straight, paved road from Wendcester to Pursborough; the remains of their fortified camps and of their villas were still left to mark their era.
Miss Strong was talking to their guide, who was describing a short cut across the fields that would save them several miles on their way to Pursborough. Verity, after calling to her friend in the museum, had run out. Ingred followed her, to find her with her arm locked closely through Bess's.
"Coming!" called Ingred, as she latched the gate and hurried with Bess to rejoin the rest of the party. Bess at Home The Pilgrims, after a glorious tramp down the dale of Beechcombe, reached Pursborough without further adventure, and spent the night there. They gave an hour next morning to inspecting the glorious old church and the ruins of the castle, then once more resumed the Roman road.
"It will be a real open-air holiday," she assured them. "We shall be out of doors all day long and eat most of our meals by the roadside. I've planned it out carefully. A short railway journey to Carford, then walk by easy stages through Ryton-on-the-Heath to Dropwick and Pursborough, where we can get the train again back to Grovebury.
The adventure in the field had flung them together, and much to the astonishment of the others, who did not know their secret they had walked the whole way from Pursborough to Ribstang in each other's company. "I can't make out Ingred!" declared Verity. "Here she's been abusing Bess, and calling her a bounder, and now she's hanging on her arm!
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