Nothing breaks a scent like a barge.

And it went the right way for my business too, and travelled all night.

I kept close all next day, and then struck across country for this place at night.

If I hadn't known the lie of the land from a boy, when I used to spend the holidays with old Alwynn, I couldn't have done it, or if I'd been as dog lame as I was in July; but I was pushed for time, and I footed it up here, and got in just before dawn.

And not too soon either, for I'm cleaned out, and food is precious hard to come by if you don't care to go shopping for it.