[The Lost Treasure of Trevlyn by Evelyn Everett-Green]@TWC D-Link bookThe Lost Treasure of Trevlyn CHAPTER 9: The Wise Woman 31/34
I can read it, but I know not what it means." "Read it again to me." He obeyed, and she forthwith began to ask a hundred questions. "'Three times three'-- that comes so many times.
What can that mean, Cuthbert? it must mean something." "Yes, doubtless, but I know not what." "And again, 'Robin's gain is Trevlyn's loss.' Cuthbert, who may Robin be ?" "I know not: Yet stop--hold! Yes, I have it now.
Not that it may be aught of import.
Robin is a name a score of men may bear even in one village.
But when the robbers of the road found themselves at the ruined mill where the gipsies were, I heard the leader ask, 'Where is Long Robin ?'" "And was he there ?" asked Cherry eagerly. "I know not: none answered the question, and I heeded it no more. Most like he was but some serving man they wanted to take the horses." "Cuthbert, it seems plain that some Robin has stolen this treasure, and carried it off and hidden it.
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