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And Grandpapa, half ashamed of his own prostration, roused himself to try to say a cheering word or two. "We must hope still, my love," he said. "To-morrow may bring news from the Central London Police Office, where the Sandlingham overseer has written to. He bade us keep up hope for a few days yet, we must remember." "Only for a few days more," repeated Grandmamma.
And everything was in the gipsies' favour. No one had seen them in the neighbourhood of Arbitt Lodge. They had not been on the Sandlingham high-road before meeting the children, and had avoided it on purpose after that.
It was partly, perhaps, owing to their innocent hopefulness, which kept up their spirits when, had they been wiser and older, they would have lost heart and grown ill with fear and anxiety. They were now far enough from Sandlingham for Mick to feel pretty sure they would not be tracked.
And still the two followed him through the coppice, across one or two ploughed fields, down a bit of lane where they had never been before, plunging at last into a wood where the trees grew thick and dark a forest of gloom it seemed to Duke and Pamela and all this time they never met a creature, or passed any little cottage such as they were accustomed to see on the cheerful Sandlingham road.
The head-man at Sandlingham does not advise our offering a reward as yet. He says it might lead to more delay if they are in dishonest hands. Their captors would wait to see if more would not be offered better let them make the first move, he says." "To think of putting a price on the darlings, as if they were little strayed dogs!" exclaimed Grandmamma, lifting her hands.
The world is trying to go too fast," he went on, turning to his paper. "They are actually speaking of running a new mail-coach from London which should reach Sandlingham in three days. It is appalling, why, I remember when I was young it took " "It is flying in the face of Providence, I should say, my dear," interrupted Grandmamma. The two little faces near the door grew still more solemn.
They had never before in their lives been outside the gates alone; of this back road and where it led to they knew very little, as it was always on the other road that leading to Sandlingham that Nurse liked to walk.
And this, though they had no idea of it, was actually the coach-road to Sandlingham; for though, it must be allowed, more by luck than good management they had hit upon a short cut to the highway, which if Tim had known of it would have saved him all his present troubles! For a moment or two Duke and Pamela felt cheered by having at last got out of the weary lane.
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