Page 46 THE TOOL I had made no definite plans for myself that year.
Something, I felt sure, would turn up, and if all my friends were
booked elsewhere, I knew that I could depend on ten days at my
uncle's place in Devonshire, or a fortnight of fresh air and plain
living on Bob's disreputable old ketch. But somehow everything
fell through. My uncle, who was beginning to be troubled about
death duties, had let the shooting for the first time in fifty
years; Bob was busy running his craft aground on Danish shoals,
and I was left to my own resources. I set off finally at twelve
hours' notice on a ten days' walking-tour, determined to hunt out
some weather-proof barn within easy distance of a river or the
sea, where Legge and I could take our boys to camp at Easter. |
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