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You must translate for me." "A pagan sentiment, ma'am, from a pagan poet . . . If I were Jove, that stag should sleep to-night under the waves on a coral bed. He deserves it." "Or, better still, swim out to Holmness and reign his last days there, a solitary king." The Parson shook his head as he gazed.
"If you won't come with me, I'm going alone." "Eh?" She stared at him across the moon-ray, for he had gone back to the window and lifted the curtain again. "But where in the world?" "To Holmness." "'Olmness? . . . It's crazed you are." "I am not crazed at all. It's all quite easy, I tell you easy and simple.
Moment by moment he out-distanced the wedge-shaped ripple where the heads of the tired pack bobbed in pursuit; for here, as always in water, the deer held the advantage, being able to float and rest at will while the hound must always ply his forelegs or sink. The huntsman, however, judged it impossible that he could reach Holmness.
But he persisted in treating the adventure as a wild-goose chase. He had never heard of Holmness. It was certainly not a port; and, that being so, how unless they chartered a steamer could they be landed there? "That's for you to find out," maintained Tilda. "Well," said he, rising from the meal, "I don't mind lookin' around an' makin' a few inquiries for yer. But I warn yer both it's 'opeless."
Armed with this, the children retraced their steps down the coombe. The fog had lifted a little, and in the offing Holmness loomed out dimly, with a streak of golden light on the water beyond its westernmost cliffs.
I got it tied in a corner o' what Miss Montagu taught me to call my shimmy shifts bein' vulgar, she said." So here we are, and W.B. capital. Which we hope to post our next from Holmness, and remain, 'Yours respectfully, 'TILDA. 'William will post this. "But you're not sure of that, you know," he urged. "'Oo brought yer 'ere, I'd like to know?
"H H.O. here we are! Hockley Hoe no." He turned another three or four pages. "Holbeach Hollington Hollingwood Holme ah, here we have it! Holmfirth, Holme Fell, Holme Moss, HOLMNESS." He paused for a moment, scanning the page while they held their breath. Then he read aloud, yet not so as to disturb the other students "'Holmness. An Island or Islet in the Bristol Channel " "Ah!"
That's worrying me, I confess; for although Hucks is positive the girl would not start for Holmness without provisions and on my reading of her, he's right this is Tuesday, and they have been missing ever since Saturday night, or Sunday morning at latest." "If that is worrying you," said Chandon, "it may ease your mind to know that there is food and drink on the Island.
Maybe you've heard of him," added the skipper irrelevantly. "A well-known Temperance Reformer he was." The old steersman shook his head. "You're miles away out o' your course, then five an' twenty miles good." "Where are we?" "Right south-west atween Holmness and the land. You've overshot everything. Why, man, are ye all mazed aboard?
"The same to you, an' many of 'em!" They mounted the hill at a run, and when the horses dropped to a walk Farmer Tossell explained to Arthur Miles, who had been thrust forward into a seat or rather perch beside him, that this bringing home of the sheep from Holmness was a great annual event, and that he was lucky, in a way, to have dropped in for it.
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