Gave me a present last
year when he was a stopping at Fildy Fe Manor. The Major, 'e bought one
of our dawgs, and I sent it off for 'im to Old Place, Beechfield, damn
me if I don't remember it now--name of Tosswill too." He stopped short,
and then, as if he had thought better of what he was going to say, he
observed musingly: "Some says Jack Piper's a blabber--but they don't know
me! But one thing I'll tell you. The're two after the Missus, for all the
Colonel's 'ardly cold, so to speak, but I put my money on the dark one."
He had hardly uttered these cryptic words when a pretty young woman
opened the door which gave on to the stable-yard from the house:
"Dinner-time!" she called out merrily.
Both men dropped the brooms they were holding, and going towards the door
disappeared.
As they did so, Timmy heard the words:--"_She's_ a peach--thinks herself
one too--oh! the merry widder!"
The little boy waited a moment. He took a long look round the sunny, and
now unnaturally tidy, stable-yard. Then he got up, shut his book, and put
it sedately into his pocket. Flick seemed unwilling to move, so Timmy
turned and called sharply:--"Flick! come along at once!"
The dog jumped down and ran up to his master.
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