<*Anthony Trollope 



up in a barn. The whips were put into violent commotion. 

 Tony was eagerly at work. Not a hound was to be allowed 

 near the gate. And then, as the crowd of horsemen and 

 carriages came on, the word ' poison ' was passed among them 

 from mouth to mouth ! 



* What does all this mean ? ' said the Senator. 



* I don't at all know. I 'm afraid there 's something 

 wrong,' replied Morton. 



* I heard that man say " poison." They have taken the 

 dogs back again.' Then the Senator and Morton got out 

 of the carriage, and made their way into the crowd. The 

 riders who had grooms on second horses were soon on foot, 

 and a circle was made, inside which there was some object 

 of intense interest. In the meantime the hounds had been 

 secured in one of Mr. Twentyman's barns. 



What was that object of interest shall be told in the next 

 chapter. 



GOARLY'S REVENGE 



The Senator and Morton followed close on the steps of 

 Lord Rufford and Captain Glomax, and were thus able to 

 make their way into the centre of the crowd. There, on a 

 clean sward of grass, laid out as carefully as though he were 

 a royal child prepared for burial, was — a dead fox. * It 's 

 p'ison, my lord ; it 's p'ison to a moral,' said Bean, who 

 as keeper of the wood was bound to vindicate himself, and 



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