So he hasn't been home since, has he ?" "Home?
no," said Godfrey, "and he'd better keep away.

Confound me for a fool! I might have known this would be the end of it." "Well, to tell you the truth," said Bryce, "after I'd bargained for the horse, it did come into my head that he might be riding and selling the horse without your knowledge, for I didn't believe it was his own.

I knew Master Dunsey was up to his tricks sometimes.

But where can he be gone?
He's never been seen at Batherley.

He couldn't have been hurt, for he must have walked off." "Hurt ?" said Godfrey, bitterly.