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Mr. Fowle know on the quiet. Mr. Fowle 

 would have thought me a good, honest fellow, 

 Watts would go out, and I should take his 

 place." 



Humphries made a great mistake when he 

 thought he could take in Mr. Fowle. Finding 

 that Watts would not rise to his first bait he 

 set his brains to work out another plan. 



He choose out a spring, one of the best 

 little woods thereabouts for pheasants, and set 

 a line of snares in it from one side to the 

 other ; then he went up to the Lodge, and 

 sent in word that he wanted to see the 

 Reverend, very particularly. The butler took 

 in his message, and, after a while, Mr. Fowle 

 came out. 



"Well, Humphries," says he. "And what 

 do you want to see me about so very par- 

 ticularly ? " 



" Please, sir, I've found a line of pheasant 

 snares set right across Murrel's Spring." 



"Well, I suppose you have been and told 

 Watts." 



" No, sir, I came straight to you." 



