He might have found it difficult to have come without
one of the Tosswill girls, but there was no reason and no excuse for his
being accompanied by that odious little Timmy. It was also really unkind
of the boy to have brought his horrid dog with him. Even now she seemed
to hear Flick's long-drawn-out howls--those horrible howls that at the
time she had not believed to be real. What a nervous, hysterical fool
she was becoming! How long would she go on being haunted by the now
fast-disappearing past?
There came back to Enid Crofton the very last words uttered by Piper, the
clever, capable man who, after having been Colonel Crofton's batman in
the War, had become their general factotum in Essex:--"Don't you go and
be startled, ma'am, if you see the very spit of Dandy in this 'ere
village! As me and your new lad was cleaning out the stable-yard this
morning, a young gentleman came in with a dog as was 'is exact image.
After a bit o'course, I remembered as what we'd sent one of Juno's and
Dandy's pups to a place called Beechfield this time last year--'tis that
pup grown into a dog without a doubt!"
It was certainly a bit of rank bad luck that there should be here, in
Beechfield, a dog which, whenever she saw it, brought the image of her
dead husband so vividly before her.
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