CHAPTER XVII. 



HUMPHRIES RE- APPEARS AND DISAPPEARS. 



TTUMPHRIES arrived at Stansted some 

 JLl time after the poaching affray, in which 

 Joslin cut such a creditable figure, happened. 



I don't know whether Joslin was ashamed 

 of his cowardly behaviour, or whether he 

 turned sulky, but, anyhow, he gave me to 

 understand that he would do the same thing 

 again if he came into contact with any more 

 poachers. So Joslin was discharged, and 

 Humphries, being at hand and in want of a 

 place, was taken on as underkeeper. 



1 think I have before mentioned that 



