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Huntingtower

CHAPTER VI
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But the eye could still travel a fair distance, and Dickson thought he had a glimpse of a figure on a bicycle leaving the village two miles back.
He wondered who it could be.

Not Heritage, who had no bicycle.
Perhaps some woman who was conspicuously late for the train.

Women were the chief cyclists nowadays in country places.
Then he forgot about the bicycle and twisted his neck to watch the station.

It was less than a mile off now, and they had no time to spare, for away to the south among the hummocks of the bog he saw the smoke of the train coming from Auchenlochan.

The postman also saw it and whipped up his beast into a clumsy canter.


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