18 MELTON AND HOMESPUN 



" The doctor said it was gruesome and turned him 

 cold. The villagers heard it, broad awake, and shivered 

 in their beds. 



" Next day on the moor, surrounded by the remains 

 and fragments of a fox, they found a hound, dead. It 

 was old Marksman. They must have run nearly forty 

 miles. 



" Nothing of a like nature ever occurred again," said 

 the white-haired man, after a pause. " For years there 

 were rumours among the country people of a deep- 

 voiced hound being heard at night, particularly in one 

 part, and of a man's voice cheering him. But the 

 evidence was never at first hand." 



The white-haired man lit a fresh cigar. 



" Yes," he said, " it is strange that we never find a fox 

 in Canonby Whin." 



