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"Have you other lodgers to-night?" he asked carelessly

"No, sir," said she "Travellers are taken by a big house and a bustle

of servants They stay at the Vapore Inn when they stay at Peri, and to

their cost"

As soon as she had left the rooe?"

"I had not rean became uneasy He went down into the courtyard, and found it

eht in the kitchen, and he entered the roo her supper in company with her few servants, and

there were one or two peasants froan chatted with theain ht be as well to see that his pony was ready for

an eency He crossed silently to the stable, which he found dark as

the courtyard The door was latched, but not locked He opened it and

went in The building was long, with an's pony stood in the end stall opposite to the door Wogan took

down the harness froan to fix it ready on the pony He

had just put the collar over its head when he heard a horse sta in

one of the stalls at the other end of the stables Now he had noticed in

the , and those

tere tied up in the stalls next to that which his pony occupied He

walked along the range of stalls The two horses were there, then caap he counted six other horses