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Updated: June 27, 2025
"A week hence I shall be in klink, Squire," I said, and moved my handcuffs, just to remind him of the state of things. And then he had the head-keeper in and set me free. 'Twas a case of one good turn deserving another, no doubt; and though the young man never forgave himself for his one slip, he forgave me for my many, and a month from that day I went as third keeper to Woodcotes.
So I set to work, and even in them exciting moments I thought what strange messengers the Lord do choose to run His Almighty errands. I knowed the way the young chap had to go, and how long 'twould take. Two miles from the river lay Woodcotes, and, by following over a hill and dropping down t'other side, I could get in his track again and be at the edge of the home gardens where he'd come out.
Helen breathed deeply and happily. "And what am I going to say?" "How can I know that?" demanded Philip. "Am I a mind reader?" But what she said may be safely guessed from the fact that they both chucked Lady Woodcotes luncheon, and ate one of penny buns, which they shared with the bears in Regents Park. Philip was just able to pay for the penny buns. Helen paid for the taxi-cab.
The way of it was simple enough, in a manner of speaking, yet I'm sure no such thing happened afore, or be like to hap again. Woodcotes was a very great estate on the brink o' Dartmoor. In fact, the covers crept up the hills as far as the fierce winds would let 'em; and they was cold woods up over cold and rocky and better liked by the foxes than the pheasants.
But the birds done very well half a mile lower down, and the river that run through Woodcotes carried a lot of salmon at the proper time. A ten-pound fish was no wonder, and more'n one twenty-pounder have left it in my memory.
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