I would have given a hundred pounds to be snug in my old room with japp thinking me out of the store.
Suddenly the legs twitched up, and his boots appeared above the counter.

Japp had invited him to his bedroom, and the game was now to be played beyond my ken.

This was more than I could stand, so I stole out at the back door and took to the thickest bush on the hillside.

My notion was to cross the road half a mile down, when it had dropped into the defile of the stream, and then to come swiftly up the edge of the water so as to effect a back entrance into the store.
As fast as I dared I tore through the bush, and in about a quarter of an hour had reached the point I was making for.

Then I bore down to the road, and was in the scrub about ten yards off it, when the clatter of horses pulled me up again.