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Updated: June 12, 2025
For the rest of breakfast he left the conversation to Erebus. The Terror was blessed with a masterly prudence uncommon indeed in a boy of his years. He changed but one of the six postal orders at Little Deeping that would make talk enough and then, having begged a holiday from the vicar, he took the train to Rowington, their market town, ten miles away, taking Erebus with him.
After lunch they made three more snares; and the Terror found that the fingers of Erebus were, if anything, more deft at snare-making than his own. It was late in the afternoon when they reached Rowington again; and when they came to Ellen's stall, they found to their joy that the basket which had held the six kittens was empty.
Dangerfield was presented with only two peaches at tea that afternoon; and she took it that the Twins had ridden into Rowington and bought them for her there. When two more were forthcoming for her dessert after dinner, she reproached them gently for spending so much of their salary for "overseering" on her. The Twins said nothing.
So it was settled; and Miss Lambart was busy for an hour collecting provisions, arranging that fresh provisions should be brought to the path to the knoll every morning and preparing and packing the fewest possible number of garments she would need during her stay. Then she bade the relieved archduke good-by; and set out in the Rowington car to the knoll.
Then she betook herself to a point of vantage among the bushes on the face of the knoll, from which she could watch the entrance of the path and the coming of the invaders. The archduke, lying back at his ease in the car, and smoking an excellent cigar, spoke with assurance of catching the one-fifteen train from Rowington to London and the night boat from Dover to Calais.
"That's why he has a European reputation," said Wiggins; and he spurned the earth. That afternoon the Twins bicycled into Rowington and bought a bottle of the enchanting drug. Just before they reached the village, on their way home, the Terror produced a rag with a piece of string tied to it, poured some valerian on it and trailed it after his bicycle through the village to his garden gate.
It could not be doubted that they looked much finer than ordinary unwashed kittens. Directly after breakfast, the Twins put three in the basket of either of their bicycles, rode over to Rowington and handed them over to Ellen. They would have liked to stay to see what luck she had with them but they had to return to their lessons.
"And look here: she's here incognita," said the Terror. "She's taken the traveling name of Lady Rowington; and she's not the princess at all. So if you're asked if the princess is here, you can truthfully say she isn't." "Of course I see. This is a go!" said Wiggins cheerfully; and he spurned the earth.
That evening they prepared eight more kittens for sale at Rowington market, and carried them into Rowington directly after breakfast next morning. Ellen told them, with some indignation, that two rival poultry-sellers had both brought three kittens to sell.
"Yes; there is that," said Miss Lambart. "Let me introduce my nephew. Hyacinth Dangerfield better, much better, known as the Terror to you," Said Sir Maurice. The Terror shook hands with her, and said: "How do you do? I've been wanting to know you: the princess I mean Lady Rowington likes you ever so much." Miss Lambart was appeased. "Perhaps you could give us some tea?
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