ADVENTURE AT THE CASTLE 43 



you see away bey ant those trees, miss, thim towerg 

 — there, you see them poppin' up." 



" Yes." 



" That's Mr Frinch's house." 



" Wliy, it's a castle." 



" Yes, miss, I b'lave they called it that in the 

 old days." 



At a gateway, where the gate was flung wide 

 open, Moriarty drew up. 



" Now," said he to the person in the tall hat, 

 " that's your way to the back primises, down with 

 you and in with you and sarve your writ, for it's a 

 writ you've come to sarve, and you needn't be 

 hidin' it in your pocket, for it's stickin' out of j^our 

 face — ^round with you to the back primises and 

 give me complements to the cook and say I'll be in 

 for me supper when I've left this lady at the hall 

 dure." 



The man in possession, standing now in the road 

 under the moonUght, examined the car and the 

 horse that had brought him. 



" The horse and car are Mr French's? " he asked. 



" They are." 



" Well, when you've put 'em in the stables," said 

 he, " mind and don't you move 'em out again; all 

 the movables and Hve stock are to be left in statue 

 quod till my business is settled." 



" Right y'are, sorr," replied Moriarty, cheerfully, 

 and the man in the tall hat strode away through 

 the gate and vanished in the direction of the back 

 premises. 



