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"He is filing that away where he can find it," he thought to himself. And far into the night he could see reflected on the roof a faint glimmer from Stair's dark-lantern. His curiosity was aroused, and he looked into the gloomy kitchen with the heaped peats filling all the space even to the roof.
Two complete suits of clothes were folded in an open chest of drawers. Patsy had evidently looted to some purpose. Stair's first instinct was not to put on any of these things till he had been assured that they were there with the consent of Adam Ferris.
You've promised that, you know." I did not hate my enemy the more because he turned a shoulder to this little bloodhound and quite ignored the interruption. "So we fought it out one morning in Mr. Stair's wood-field, and he had what he came for. Not to give him a chance to escape, we brought him here, and as soon as he is fit to ride I'll send him to the colonel.
My father's hobby was to build for all eternity; and this stone-arched cellarage was more like a cathedral crypt than a store-room for a country gentleman's table-stock of wines. Dick held the candle aloft and scanned the bottle racks, none so greatly depleted as they might have been, had any hand but that close-fisted one of Gilbert Stair's taken the key in charge after my father.
Adam Ferris listened and nodded his head. "I am a barn-door fowl that has hatched out a sparrow-hawk," he said meekly. "Do not pyke your father's eyes out, chicken!" And with this paternal benediction Patsy went forth on her errand. Stair's Honeypot was at the door. Fergus Garland had brought him, offering at the same time to steal Derry Down from the Castle Raincy meadows. But this Patsy refused.
The details they left to the horses, and especially to Stair's wise "Derry Down." But the scent of a single "keeping" peat in a herd's house would send them all up the hill again.
But Stair's food seemed to choke him, somehow. He felt the imperious need of speech. "Oh, Patsy!" he began but he got no farther. Patsy was in possession of the field in a moment. "Stair," she said warningly, as she held up her hand to stop him; "Stair, you have never failed me yet. Don't let me trust you in vain. I married you because I had need of you "
He had other things to think about bright, young, heart-stirring things that danced and glistened, flitting up before him just as a sudden wind-gust may for a moment turn a petal-strewn garden path all rosy. But, to make up for such ingrate forgetfulness, Patsy thought a good deal. She knew no woman could have helped knowing the fact of Stair's devotion.
The two men had been friends from boyhood, and perhaps no one had better understood than Ralph, who had earlier suffered a similar loss, the terrible blank which the death of his wife had occasioned in Stair's life.
Guessing that no time would be lost in putting the plan into action, I made haste to be found inquiring hither and yon for the commander-in-chief when my Lord and his suite came down the outer stair; and when we were met I was quickly told of my assignment to courier duty. "Make your preparations to take the road within the hour, and report to me at Friend Stair's," said my Lord, most affably.
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