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I have not said I disbelieved it. That is, there is no doubt that the folks around here have seen and heard these things. What I do not credit, as a reasoning being, is that the dead shepherd or his dug has any connection with them."
"Why, love ye, sir," put in Jorkins, "you don't know much about it, or yo wouldn't say that! There isn't a man, woman, nor child in Marshsen that 'ud go near Flack's Folly arter sunset if they weren't obliged. I, myself, have They've got more Bense,
heard that derg too many times to say he don't roam about a nights with his old master. An' I tell ye, sit-it's eie me mir stand up straight an' me skin creep on ne bones more'n onge."
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Have you seen the shepherd, te, Jor-1 of skin and blood diseases it has effected truly remarkable cures where all other treat-kins?" Dimchurch asked him curiously.
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"That may be so, Jorkins," he said in "But I'm going ashore, this dulgently. very evening to investigate this mystery... You'll come with me?"
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And she had agility bespoke her youth. turned in his direction. He thought quick- His inexpected appearance there at big. that hour would probably give her fright. Holding his breath he slid to the ground and lay flat in the long grass fring- ing the path. And the figure came softly on, The earth vibrator humming happily. gently to her footsteps as she passed, and the Butter of her skirts fanned his face. Then the humming grow ultimately died in the distance.
fainter and
He got up and looked around. He could sce nothing. But the faint click of a latch from the direction of the Folly told him that she has entered the garden gate, and a second later the hang of a door convince! im that the lady had entered the hous and he was free to return to his boat.
He hurried to the dinghy, pushed her off and sculled rapidly baik to the Tasa
"Who lives in that building askoro?" be soon as they were below." asked Alchester
Mrs. Flack and her two daughters," Alchester informed him. "Morna and Lacy, think their names are. Very pretty girla, I believe. But they live sa secluded a life that few people know anything about them."
"I've seen one or the other," Dimchurch
my Sunday boots that those girls are at the told his friend. "And I'm prepared to hat
saw one of them strolling along the sea-wall bottom of this mystery of yours. Some dolt on a moan-light evoning and, frightened out of the little wits he possessed, aid tha foundation of that silly story about the shepherd's ghost."
But would these girls chase a man the Alchester whole six miles to Marshsen ?!" asked almost angrily.
"Of course not! The idiot merely ran away from a creature of his own imagina-
Not for a thousan' pound, sir. I won't beggin your pardon for refusin'.'
Then I shall have to fall back upon Mr. Alchester," Dimchurch linghed, turning totion." his host.
Who will disappoint you, old chap," promptly put in that gentleman.
"Then I'll go alone. You'll tend me the boat, Dick?"
"If you persist in such madness-yes. But do listen to people who know more of this thing than you can possibly know, being almost a stranger to the neighbourhood. No good could come of your going ashore ta investigate, as you put it. For over twenty years the thing has puzzled and terrified the locals-some of them with as much courage an yourself and is it likely that you can succeed where they have failed?"
And from the howlings toos" Alchester asked, with the air of one propounding a "You have heard them yourself, poser.
you know !!!
"Yes," Dimchurch confessed, "but I'll ferret out that as well. I'm going to get an introduction to these Blacks-especially as you say the girls are pretty,"
You'll find it diffienit," Alchester pro- phesied. "I don't see how you are going to find anyone knowing them well enough to introduce you.”
"Then I'll introduce myself," Dimchurch declared. "It will be pardonable under the circumstances. I'll row ashore first thing in
for making their acquaintance, call me a duffer. Now I'm going to turn in. Good- night, old chap 1"
"I don't say I can succeed in elucidating the mystery, argued Dimchurch. "the morning, and if I can't find some excuse simply feel that I should like to discover a little more of it than Marshsen folk presum- ably know. I may come back no wiser than I went. But at all events the thing cannot
1 harm me. am not foolish enough to believe that."
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been talking about the lonely building ashore.
I'm very glad we have succeeded in getting your mother away from there at " but we should fast." Dimoburch said to the girl.
"Yes," wasther answer, have failed so long as Morna lived:"
Harvey Dimchurch and Luey Flack sat "I am not so sure" persisted his friend. together in two deck chairs aboard the "The belief in and fear of, the super former's new racht Morza. The craft was natural are handed down to us by our fore-anchored off Finek's Folly, and the two had fathers and so strongly rooted in our natures that we succumb to their hereditary in Hoence often against our will and reasoning. You may be firmly persuaded now that a sight of the shepherd or the howl of his dog shall make no impression upon you. But I doubt if your courage would survive the test alone ashore there in the darkness."
"I'm going, anyhow," Dimchurch said
Mother was never devoted to it, Harvey. obstinately. "And it won't be very dark. The moon will be up very shortly.'*
She had a good and sufficient reason for Dick Alchester saw the uselessness of argu-staying there, just as poor father had for having it built. Both had a horror of my At ten o'clock, ject was allowed to drop.
sister's affliction becoming known to the however, another piercing how? caused them to finish hurriedly the game of cards they world, and took what seemed the only means
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"I cannot understand her devotion to the place," he said in a perplexed tone.
Your sister's affliction--Moria's? Why she seemed as healthy, as right and intelli- gent as yourself! I never knew she had had a day's illness till the one that caused her death."
"She never had-never had an ordinary illness, that is. But, Harvey, as we are to be married shortly, and as Morna is dend, I think I may tell you our story.the story that has blighted all our lives.”
She heat her head close to his and told him what she had to say in a sad whisper.
"Heavens ! he exclaimed as she bnished. "And that is the solution of the mystery of the shepherd's dog. How that absurd story must bare pained you all! For, of course, you must have known of the superstitions tales believed in by the Marshsea villagers."
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He jumped out, the revolver in one hand and the dinghy's anchor in the other. Car- rying the anchor as far up the stones as the of the rope would allow, he pressed one Bukes into an interstice and elirabed to the narrow path at the top. No sooner had he gained it than a figure apparently clothed in white showed for moment in a streak of moonlight which appeared to cut in half a clump of bushes on the landward side of the seawall. Then it vanished, hidden by the larger half of the clump, which ran for some fifty yards along the foot of the em- bankment.
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