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He had many friends among the large staff of Tidborough School masters and had developed many acquaintances among the large body of members of the teaching profession with whom the firm was in touch.
"The poor beggar shook his head. No voice in his throat. "'Do you shop there once in a month, once in six months? "Shook again. "'Are there chemists in the Garden House, in Tidborough, in Chovensbury? "Nods. "'Are you known in all these places I have mentioned? "Nods. "'Are you known in Alton? "Shakes. "'Are all these places nearer to you than Alton? "Nods.
How on earth could he go to bed, be hoggishly sleeping, while those chaps were marching out? He could not. At two in the morning he went quietly from the house and got out his bicycle and rode down into Tidborough. He was just in time. The news had been well kept, or in those early days had not the meaning it came to have.
"Yes, in his office I saw him.... He's in a good business down there at Tidborough. Dashed good. 'Fortune, East and Sabre'... Never heard of them? Ah, well, that shows you're not a pillar of the Church, old son.
She gasped out, "Huggo!" but Harry had heard, and Harry, perhaps in offset to the emotion he had displayed, smashed his hand down on the table before him and cried out, "Well, keep your mouth shut about it then! Couldn't stick it! What can you be? What can be the matter with you? Couldn't stick it! Tidborough! The finest school in the world! Couldn't stick it!" She interposed, "Harry, dear!
I'm only saying he's right from how he looks at it and it's no good saying he's wrong.... Ha! Funny days.... Jolly nice chap, though, old Puzzlehead was.... Yes, I met him.... Fact, I run into him occasionally. We do a mild amount of business with his firm. I buzz down there about once a year. Tidborough. He's changed, of course. So have you, you know. That Vandyke beard, what? Ha!
In the train going down to Tidborough the man who had accosted him permitted himself to be more communicative. A policeman, observing lights burning in the house at midday on Sunday, had knocked, and getting no answer had gone in. He had found the young woman dead on her bed, the baby dead beside her.
She felt she would have given anything to hear him, in the long topic of railways with his father, and then of Tidborough School, say, "Do they, father?" or, "Does it, father?" He never did. He always knew it before or knew different. Once on a subject connected with the famous school Harry said, a shade of rebuke in his voice, "My dear old chap, I was at Tidborough. I ought to know."
Yes, and by Jove you'll have to hurry up if you want to catch the old-world look of the place. It's 'developing' ... 'being developed.... Eh?... Yes; God help it; I agree. After all these centuries sleeping there it's suddenly been 'discovered. People are coming out from Tidborough and Alton and Chovensbury to get away from their work and live there.
Successive Punchers of old time, when it had been the most considerable farm in all the country between Chovensbury and Tidborough, had added to it in stubborn defiance of all laws of comfort and principles of domestic architecture, and now, shorn alike of its Punchers and of its pastures, the homestead that might easily have housed twenty, was mysteriously filled to overflowing by two. Mrs.
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