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Along this road Carruthers had his favorite horse "Tenby" stolen. He had hung the animal up to the verandah post of a wayside public house, to see the sheep and teams pass. After they had gone by, and while Carruthers was having a drink, a man jumped on the horse and galloped away.
Then of a sudden the arrows ceased to rain on us, and there went a cry as of terror from the decks of our enemy. The wild war song of the Tenby Danes rose ahead of us, and I turned and looked. Eric was close on us, and his men had risen from under the gunwales, where they too had been hiding until the foe was in their grasp, and now the dragon was on her prey, and that prey knew it.
But I trust that the police will find the foreign-looking individual whom the accused met coming out of the house, if it is certain that " He broke off sharply. "At all events, gentlemen," he added, "be assured that I shall do my best." This promise from the great Mr. Tenby meant everything.
The scenery was so gentle in its beauty that my wild, excited mood was lulled by its soft influence. The colour of landscape and sky kept the delicate tints of spring, though we are in full, rich summer; and there was none of the tropical verdure we saw near Tenby; no crimson fountains of fuchsias, no billows of blood-red roses, and fierce southern flowers.
His face was still working nervously, however, when at length the detective turned and held out a pen towards him. "Will you not write at once to General Tenby?" he suggested. Mark sat down before the blotting-pad. "He will be at home," he said mechanically. "This weather will have driven them in early if they have been shooting."
He looked and beheld a small maiden clad in a holland frock, with a white linen hat on the back of her gold-brown curls, instead of being set in orthodox fashion upon her head. Her white shoes and socks, fresh with the morning, were a little reddened with walking through the "Tenby" garden, which, as Pauline had borne witness, contained no grass whatever.
If that hope came to naught I should certainly care for them or need them little enough, for my home would be the court as ever. Better to me than the gold was a letter from Owen. The honest Norseman had gone out of his way to put in at Tenby, knowing that I should be glad to have news thence, and not troubling about Mordred who was waiting release, at all.
Again she walked back to the gate, thinking deeply. Actually at the gate she lifted her eyes and looked, with a quivering sigh at "Tenby," blinking shadeless in the afternoon sun. The thing was impossible, of course. Not for anything in the world could she march up to that dread door and calmly propose to interview its almost sacred tenant.
He was the only one who did not retire to the Dauphin's 'chamber of testification, to return convulsed with vinous laughter after gravely inspecting the evidence; for which abstention the Dauphin reproached him violently, in round terms of abuse, challengeing him to go through a similar process. This was the signal for Edbury, Tenby, and some of the rest.
And after a world of trouble dragged it from Pauline that they had actually gone across to "Tenby" to try to induce Hugh Kinross to give his orders for bacon and such things to Larkin. Hugh Kinross and bacon! Miss Bibby ran down to the gate almost choking with agitation and distress.
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