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Dear Harry, I know now that he was feeling even more anxious about me than I was for myself, and that brave as he was, it took all his courage to do as he had determined I mean to plead my cause with his stern guardian. For Mr. Vandeleur was almost as much a stranger to him as to me. 'I'm afraid I must, he said, 'I have to go to Middlemoor, but I shall not be away more than an hour and a half.
I did not speak. After a while I remember finding myself, and granny of course, safe in a four-wheeler, which seemed narrow and stuffy compared to the Middlemoor flys, and jolted along with a terrible rattle and noise, so that I could scarcely distinguish the words grandmamma said when once or twice she spoke to me.
For he is still alive and well, and no doubt 'ready to tell the story, if he could speak. We never seemed to be ill in those days. The Nestor children were no doubt very strong, and I grew much stronger. Then Middlemoor is such a splendidly healthy place. I have some misty recollections of Nan and Vallie having the measles, and a doubt arising as to whether I had not got it too.
And more good has come out of it, too. I have never known Harry for what he is, before to-day. 'I am so very glad, I said. 'Now, said Mr. Vandeleur, looking at his watch, 'it is past five o'clock. I shall spend the night at the hotel at Middlemoor, but I should like to stay with you three here, as late as possible. Do you think your good Kezia can give me something to eat?
Nor, how at last, late in the afternoon, I found myself on the platform at Middlemoor Station. I was very tired, now that the first excitement had gone off. 'How glad I shall be to get to Windy Gap, I thought, 'and to be with Kezia. I opened my purse and looked at my money. There were three shillings and some coppers, not enough for a fly, which I knew cost five shillings.
And in some ways it was cold, at least it was windy, and quite suited its name, though at some seasons of the year it was very calm and sheltered. Sheltered on two sides it always was, for it stood in a sort of nest a little way up the Middlemoor Hills, with high ground on the north and on the east, so that the only winds really to be feared could never do us much harm.
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