[El Dorado by Baroness Orczy]@TWC D-Link bookEl Dorado CHAPTER XXI 8/24
It was answered almost immediately. The spinney lay on the right of the road.
Soon the soft sounds that to a trained ear invariably betray the presence of a number of horses reached Ffoulkes' straining senses.
He took his old nag out of the shafts, and the shabby harness from off her, then he turned her out on the piece of waste land that faced the spinney.
Some one would find her in the morning, her and the cart with the shabby harness laid in it, and, having wondered if all these things had perchance dropped down from heaven, would quietly appropriate them, and mayhap thank much-maligned heaven for its gift. Blakeney in the meanwhile had lifted the sleeping child out of the cart. Then he called to Sir Andrew and led the way across the road and into the spinney. Five minutes later Hastings received the uncrowned King of France in his arms. Unlike Ffoulkes, my Lord Tony wanted to hear all about the adventure of this afternoon.
A thorough sportsman, he loved a good story of hairbreadth escapes, of dangers cleverly avoided, risks taken and conquered. "Just in ten words, Blakeney," he urged entreatingly; "how did you actually get the boy away ?" Sir Percy laughed--despite himself--at the young man's eagerness. "Next time we meet, Tony," he begged; "I am so demmed fatigued, and there's this beastly rain--" "No, no--now! while Hastings sees to the horses.
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