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The American Senator

CHAPTER X
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At this time the whole side of the hill was ringing with the music of the hounds.
"He was out then, but Dick turned him," said Larry.

Dick was one of the whips.
"Will you be so kind, Mr.Morton," asked the Senator, "as to tell me whether they're hunting yet?
They've been at it for three hours and a half, and I should like to know when they begin to amuse themselves." Just as he had spoken there came from Dick a cry that he was away.
Tony, who had been down at the side of the gorse, at once jumped into it, knowing the passage through.

Lord Rufford, who for the last five or six minutes had sat perfectly still on his horse, started down the hill as though he had been thrown from a catapult.

There was a little hand-gate through which it was expedient to pass, and in a minute a score of men were jostling for the way, among whom were the two Botseys, our friend Runciman, and Larry Twentyman, with Kate Masters on the pony close behind him.

Young Hampton jumped a very nasty fence by the side of the wicket, and Lord Rufford followed him.


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