1868] THE GREAT RADBURNE RUN. 261 



between Mansell Park and Bradley. Miss Meynell had 

 gone well hitherto, but at about this period she and I 

 came to the Brailsford brook. We turned to the right 

 by a farmyard, where a woman directed us to a place 

 where she said they (foot people) crossed it. I had, after 

 jumping the brook, to run up a steep bank by means 

 of steps worn in it. Rosy Morn scrambled up like a 

 cat, but Miss IMeynell's horse refused, and I saw her 

 no more for some time." 



A propos of this, there is a good story told of how 

 the Colonel was piloting Miss Wilhelmiua FitzHerbert, 

 Sir William's daughter, who afterwards came to such a 

 tragic end by being burnt to death at Tissington after 

 a ball. She got into the Sutton brook, and her uncle 

 stopped to help her out. Consequently the pair arrived 

 some time after the fox had been killed. 



" What happened to you ? " Sir William asked his 

 brother. 



"Oh, Mina got into the brook and I stopped to 

 help her." 



" That," said Sir William in his slow, deliberate way, 

 " comes of looking back." 



Perhaps the Colonel remembered this on the present 

 occasion, for he goes on to say, " So she probably 

 followed the road on to Hulland and Biggin, where she 

 met the hounds coming back. Just after this episode I 

 was riding alongside of a stranger from Leicestershire, 

 who had kept on gallantly for nearly three hours, and 

 I heard him say, ' This is the finest run I have ever had. 

 I would give five and twenty pounds for them to kill 

 their fox and for me to be there too.' 



" But it was not to be. 



" ' Diana heard, but granted half his prayer, 

 The rest the winds dispersed in empty air.' 



His horse was nearly done then, and soon afterwards 

 he gave in altogether, and I saw him no more. 



" The hounds passed by Hulland Ward, across the 

 Belper road, down the valley to Biggin, and then, leaving 



