CHAPTER XXII.
PECKABY'S SHOP.
On passing through Deerham from Verner's Pride, a little below the shop of Mrs.Duff, you come upon an opening on the left hand, which led to quite a swarm of cottages.

Many of the labourers congregated here.

If you took this turning, which was called Clay Lane, and continued your way past the cottages in a straight line over the fields, you would arrive at the residence of the gamekeeper, Broom, leaving some brick-fields to the right, and the Willow Pool, which had been the end of poor Rachel Frost, on the left.

But, unless you climbed hedges, you could not get to the pool from this quarter without going round, near the gamekeeper's.

The path which led to Verner's Pride past the pool, and which Rachel had taken that unfortunate night, had its commencement higher up in the village, above Mrs.Duff's.