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THE CHINA MAIL.
Vaudrey's Journey
hear the
(Continued from
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"And when may We story 7" asked Silverson.
from his nose. Eric, a httle upset afraid of her, he felt that in her "When I've seen the Vaudrey's by his sudden encounter with the curious, rather uncanny way, she was house and garden. I shall need house, had been hanging about a good sort. So he walked demurely and uncomfortably at her side, keeping them, of course, for my setting.” rather sheepishly not far from the pace with her slow, shambling step. "You shall see them, my dear Gar pear-tree; but now, shamed into the stopped aand surveyed the peaches a.m.land, as soon as you like. Shall we courage by Jimmy's coolness, he be and Jimmy stopped, too. Several of gan to examine the other fruit-trees them were ripe. 'Peaches!" she said,
Do you
like peaches, boy!* m. start now?”
"What tempted us.
of course," that covered the wall, and soon bei
Yes, said Jimmy "'So do I,' she said; 'better than said Silverson on their way to the came enthralled by a peach.
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wouldn't be right to give moment you de. Sn "Let us consider for a house, "was the garden."
the shrubbery on our right, Silver. you any, would it'
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"Yes," Garland agreed. "a lovely garden"
"Then you've seen li?”
"Yes, Garland, a path running from the house to the wall we came
"len't there a high garden wall and, in the road not far from ain through." door in the wall, an olmtree?"
"There they are," said Silverson. pointing ahead.
"No, said the old lady, and they continued their walk. They inspected other fruit-trees and then turned and crossed the
ETSIL
turned her red face on Jimmy again. Like flowers?' she said.
"Yes, sald Jimmy.
"She pointed at plant, What are those f
""Tritomas, safd Jimmy,
"The old lady's laborious slownes Well, Jimmy's and and her audible breathing embarrass- "Just so. Eric's fatal mistake had been to dised Jimmy: he followed her like a pet regard the possibility of a path in- lamb, half willing, half unwilling, When htey reached this flower bed "I climbed that tree once," said side the shrubbery. It never occur here, Silverson, Hra. Vaudrey stopped
red to them that, under cover of the
and Garland, "and saw the garden."
"Well, you shall see the garden shrubbery, an enemy could reach the again, but you needn't climb the top of the garden and cut off the tree." He fumbled in his pocket retreat of anyone who'ventured tue and brought out a key. "We'll go far from the wall.
"Thus it was that Eric, in con in by the door," he said.
"And here," said Garlond, "is my templation of his peach-tree, and story. I'll improvise as I go on. Jimmy, peacefully discussing a plum. ...Jimmy and Eric, mischievous were electrified by a terrible voice little devils, glanced cautiously up that filled the garden; a voice that and down the road, and then, like a cried: 'Hallo, hallo, what's this?
"For a moment Jimmy felt his plum-tree: Jimmy's plum-tree.
"Their next stopping plate was thie 'Like couple of monkeys, climbed one af ter another into that elm-tree; and legs grow into the ground, then he plums?' said the old lady. next moment they had stepped neatly turned and saw an elderly gentleman
+ Fiddlcatela the snapped. They're Red Hot Tritomas,_indeed! Pokers.
Do you hear, boy?' "Yes," said Jiminy. "Then say it
"Red Hot Jokers, sald Jimmy, shamefacedly.
"But Jimmy was ready for her this
he
*Neither
you
nextant traich there on to the top with white mutton-chap whiskers time, Nore she replied.
point of the wall. There they sat with advancing rapidly from the
do 1. H you'd liked them
you might dangling legs and surveyed the gar-where the shrubbery touched the have had some."
it don't mind having some,' xald' wall towards Eric, who, strange as den."
Silverson unlocked the door in the it might at first appear, was run-Jimmy.
"You don't?' Her watery bluc wall. "Pray do so, too, Garland," he ning cagerly to meet him. But this,
eyes laughed at him. "You actually pre-l don't mind! in truth, only showed Eric's said.
She Very well then." "I survey the garden," said Gar-sence of mind, for the pear-tree was began to gather plums.
"'Come here," she ordered, and withi land, entering, "and I see, as Jimmy between him and the old gentleman and Erie saw fifty years ago, that and rather farther from the old clumsy hands stuffed plums into his.
various Jimmy her touch.
pockets. Jimmy shrank at its very beautiful and that there gentleman than from him.
"There, that'll keep you
'And now I must' is no one in sight. There, growing inalantly and desperately decided to going, she said.
He have something to keep me going." [up the wall is the pear-tree which make for the pear-tree, too.
up one finger and a crafty She held Jimmy and Erie saw five
of his came into her face. Can or six was sure that by the skin yards to their left. They perceived teeth he could get there a second keep a secret?" she asked.
What he Yes, said Jimmy. at once that it would be almost as or twu before the enemy.
She
over towards easy to climb down as a ladder, and did not till he was yard that, once they were in the garden, or two from the tree, was that are a summer-house thatched with heiliger.
Just to the left of that cedar there." it would be easy to reach it at a was going to wreck his tactics by
"But where's
Your Bummer-house, tampering with gallop and climb up it again if they blocking his ascent. 3rd Nov. were seen and pursued. Naturally, And then, next moment, was your setting,"
"Can you contradict me, Silverson, if then, they descended at once into aayed, because the old gentleman, 1 insist that fifty years ago there was
a summer-house there? the garden, making, on their way instead of coming on, had
The summer- the disappointing discovery that, al- aside, darted to the door in the wall, needs a summer-house.
W36 open-fronted, and Mrs. though it was autumn, there was no unlocked it, and vanished through house
Vaudrey, after glancing cautiously 20th Oct. fruit on the pear-tree. At first they it.
about her, went in, Jimmy followed. moved cautiously, and though they turned their backs on the pear-tree, they kept ita exact position careful ly within consciousness.
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"But, after a while, as the gar den remained so obviously vacant, they ventured to advance, as we are They doing now, down this path. were so busy keeping a look-out to right and left that they failed to pay enough attention to what lay ahead,
He was lost. Garland ?
he
tarned
My story
"Remember,' she contained.
**"Yes," said Jimmy.
вин
Kaid,
"He was going to make cure of Eric | A table and two rustic chairs were all on the other side of the wall. Jimmy it
used, relieved but anxious, while you've promised." Eric's l worked madly above his head. Suddenly his shoulder Wat
in grabbed from behind. He turned terror. A very large lady with a red fece had, it seemed, risen nut
out of the ground and firmly inid hold of him.
Didn't you see the parsnip-birds ཤྭ་ she asked, still gripping his shoulder. her other hand, he noticed, she held
"She resclied up to where the eaves met the wall and took something down. What's this? she said.
"A tumbler,' said Jimmy.
on the table "And this?' "A bottle," said Jimmy. "Junt 10. A boitie?" She pulled
She put the tumbler and reached up again.
A long plece of string. Watery blue out the cork, making, as she did so, rughed at him out of her large, a sudden, shocking, chirp with her red face. But ale herself did not lips. She poured herself out a good.
She
until Eric looked up and found the house and all its front windows seem to be laughing: her face and three inches. A secret, mind!" she voice were stern, and her sternness and said, winking disturbingly at Jimmy. staring them in the face.
her
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BOME? but Jimmy dushed for a tree only a
The atam- The p-p-paranip
No, thank you said Jimmy, "No, thank you, she mimicked, and. yard or two away and studied the mered.
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** Audy, flicking the string in
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You can go, she
be empty because of the dullness of then that Jimmy noticed for the first measingly as the battle, then turned its windows. Then he noticed that time that several parsnips stuck with and looked at Jimmy as if surprised
feathers were hanging by strings to find him there. the windows had curtains and that
sald coldly. from its branches.
4
don't want you. plume of smoke breathed lazily Parsnip-birde,' said the old lady,
"Jimmy, surprised and Immensely from one of the chimneya. But he are meant to frighten real birds relieved, turned instantly on his hee]||
This," Garland Didn't they frighten you?"
and set off at a run for the wall. As felt safe enough.
No, said Jimmy, smiling un-he reached it he saw that the key was tapped a tree-trunk with his stick,
comfortably.
in the door, so out by the door, so out Even when he is Jimmy's tree, and there are....
by the door he went. what?....sixty feet of lawn between
was safe outside he did not stop run- ning."
Garland stopped.
him and the house. He felt, in fact,
"Why not? Aren't you a bird?' "Not aid Jimmy.
"The old lady looked him sternly in
so safe that soon he Tost interest in the face, "Then what are you? Eh?
"I'm a boy," said Jimmy, feeling "Well?" asid Silverson. the house and turned his attention that she was making fool of him "Here," said Garland, comer
observed that for the last
three
A
to the boughs above his head. It is, and at the same time that she was pause, a gap of a year, The story You see, a plum-tree, and Jimmy now on, you're a boy? Her
uncanny.
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crossed the lawn towards the house, Ionly came to see the gar "that Jimmy had had enough of this
They heard the place, and indeed the boys
didn't den, said Jimmy latch of the garden-door. The old visit it until year later, when Jimmy
Erid gentleman had returned alone. I've was again staying with
Nor caught a bird, George, shouted Indy.
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"Good. The front door was locked, “Mrs. Vaudrey, grumbling to her- self, followed the path under the wall, tong Bo was the back door."
The two man walked on in, ailence obediently accompanied by Jimmy. He until they had reached the back door. rayana laat glance at the pear tree. Garland stood back, and surveyed, the Should he make bolt for it! No, he
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