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In a flat situation north of Carlisle are the ruins of Scaleby Castle, once a fortress of great strength, but almost battered to pieces when it resisted Cromwell's forces. There are several acres enclosed within the moat, intended for the cattle when driven in to escape the forays that came over the border. This venerable castle is now a picturesque ruin.
The coachman and grooms were at dinner with the exception of one man who lived in a cottage at the entrance to the stable-yard. This was the very man she wanted to see, and she found him in the saddle-room, and beckoned him to its door. "Mrs. Mallathorpe wants me to go over to Scaleby on an errand for her this afternoon," she said.
If Pratt was going away rather, since he was going away, he would have on his person things of value documents, money. She meant to gain possession of everything that he had; she meant to have a brief interview with Mrs. Mallathorpe; then she meant to drive to Scaleby and to leave that part of the country just as thoroughly and completely as Pratt had meant to leave it.
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"And after that?" asked Esther. "Then I want to get a train at Scaleby," replied Pratt, mentioning a railway junction which lay ten miles across country in another direction. "So make it as soon after two-thirty as you can." "You can see her as soon as Miss Mallathorpe's gone," said Esther.
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