'Very like,' says I, 'I have heard as how the Squire had been in them parts before he came here.' 'Bless me!' he says, 'I've a good mind to call on him.

How do you get up there ?' he says.

So I showed him that side path that runs up through the plantation to near the top, and I told him that if he followed that till he came to the Keep, he'd find another path there as would take him to the door of the house.

And he gave me a shilling to drink his health, and off he went, the way as I'd pointed out.

D'ye think that'll be the same gentleman, now ?" Nobody answered this question.