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Five parties had Melchard sent out from Millsborough; two cars, as if going to the fair and cricket match at Ecclesthorpe, or the races at Timsdale-Horton, each with four men; and three motor-cycles with sidecars, two men apiece.
So from far and wide those who had not gone to Timsdale-Horton races came always on the third Saturday in June to the "Ecclesthorpe Fixture." As he brought his horses to a stand, Dick perceived that, while some notice was given to the oddity of his team, scarce a glance was bestowed on its unusual driver.
The Roman causeway ran into the macadam high road from Harthborough to Timsdale-Horton almost on the level, with still a slight fall towards Harthborough, the smoke of whose chimneys was already visible. Half a mile ahead of them was a knot of men, gathered about what might have been a wheelbarrow. A quarter of a mile further, "Three men," said Dick. "Motor-cycle and side-car," said Amaryllis.
Suppose we could find a village constable in a cottage they'd kill him as gaily as they would you or me but it isn't his at-home day, he's at Timsdale-Horton Races. When this gaff's over, the belated soothsayers will tell me: 'you ought to have roused the police and laid your case before them, in one of the three great towns that I drove through last night. And what yarn was I to pitch?
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