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Updated: June 19, 2025
Horace Campbell had always intended to be a cowboy when he grew up, but a visit to a play called "Raffles" was now rather inclining him to gentlemanly burglary. William Rotheram, like Gregory, leaned towards flying; but Jack Rotheram voted steadily for the sea, and talked of little but Osborne.
"Then that makes Sea View all right," said Gregory. "Because this will do instead." The poor Rotherams! Sea View had suddenly become tame and almost tiresome. Mrs. Avory saw their regrets in their faces, and cheered them up by the remark that the caravan must sometimes be lent to others. "Oh, yes," said Janet. "Do you think Dr. Rotheram would let you go?" she asked Mary.
As cardinal Bourchier set the crown on Richard's head at Westminster, so did archbishop Rotheram at York. These prelates either did not believe Richard had murdered his nephews, or were shamefully complaisant themselves. Yet their characters stand unimpeached in history. Could Richard be guilty, and the archbishops be blameless?
Mary Rotheram wanted to go to Bredon Hill in Worcestershire, because she had always wanted to ever since she had learned a song which began: "In summertime on Bredon The bells they sound so clear; Round both the shires they ring them In steeples far and near, A happy noise to hear.
Rotheram, archbishop of York and Lord Chancellor, repaired to her with the great seal, and endeavoured to comfort her dismay with the friendly message he had received from Hastings, who was with the confederate lords on the road. "A woe worth him!" quoth the queen, "for it is he that goeth about to destroy me and my blood!" Not a word is said of her suspecting the duke of Gloucester.
The big man laughed. "Very well," he said. "Now you," to Robert. "I think you're a gentleman gipsy," said Robert. "Like Lavengro. Are you?" "In a way," said the stranger, "but I shan't tell you till you've all guessed." Jack Rotheram then guessed that he was a spy, and this amused him immensely. "In a kind of way I am that too," he answered.
Mary Rotheram should be his companion, and ask for eggs and milk at the same time. Next came the victualling, and this was exceedingly interesting, although it made great holes in the sovereign box. Janet and Mary Rotheram sat for hours over the Stores List, and they were continually taking important questions to Collins. "How many tins of mustard ought we to take? A dozen at fourpence?"
The eight acres: that's what she meant to say, bless her old heart!" "Well," said Janet, "that's a very nice start. It would have been horrid if the first farmer had been crusty." "Ah," said Mary Rotheram, "but you should see his wife! It was she who did it for us really. Perhaps after dinner we might walk up there to thank her." After dinner! How recklessly young caravaners can talk.
Jack's brilliant device of slicing the brisket was successful, and by half-past seven they were seated on their rugs round the fire eating the most supreme stew of the century, as Mary Rotheram called it. They ate it in soup-plates, with a great deal of juice, into which they dropped their bread.
"We thank you very much for the caravan, which is much the most beautiful present that anyone can ever have had. We have now been in it nearly ten days, and we like it more every day. We have called it the Slowcoach. The party is seven, and Kink, who drives. We have with us Mary and Jack Rotheram and Horace Campbell; but whether you know who they are or not, of course I don't know.
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