[None Other Gods by Robert Hugh Benson]@TWC D-Link bookNone Other Gods CHAPTER I 36/53
How would it do if I took a bag and changed up in that churchyard? It's locked up after dark, isn't it ?" "Yes." "You've got a key, I suppose ?" "Yes." "Well, then, that's it.
And I'll leave the bag and the key in the hedge somewhere." Jack was silent. Jack held himself loyally in hand that evening, but he could not talk much.
He consented to explain to his mother that Frank had to be off after dinner that night, and he also visited the housekeeper's room, and caused a small bundle, not much larger than a leg of mutton, including two small bottles which jingled together, to be wrapped up in brown paper--in which he inserted also a five-pound note (he knew Frank would not take more)--and the whole placed in the bag in which Frank's old clothes were already concealed.
For the rest of the evening he sat, mostly silent, in one chair, trying not to watch Frank in another; pretending to read, but endeavoring to picture to his imagination what he himself would feel like if he were about to join the Major and Gertie in the churchyard at nine o'clock....
Frank sat quite quiet all the evening, reading old volumes of _Punch_. They dined at half-past seven, by request--Frank still in his homespun suit.
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