As the wood is really mine, since I hold it as security, having paid off the mortgage, I don't choose that he should deal with it as though it were his own.

Here"-- he passed along a letter--"I have written that on my office paper, and you will see that it says, I have heard how gypsies are camping here, and that it is my wish they should remain.

Garvington is not to order them off on any pretext whatsoever.

You understand ?" "Yes." Silver nodded, and slipped the paper into his breast pocket after a hasty glance at the contents, which were those the writer had stated.
"But if Garvington wishes to know why you take such an interest in the gypsies, what am I to say ?" "Say nothing.

Simply do what I have told you." "Garvington may suspect that you are a Romany." "He won't.