[The Cock-House at Fellsgarth by Talbot Baines Reed]@TWC D-Link bookThe Cock-House at Fellsgarth CHAPTER FOURTEEN 10/20
No questions asked. All are welcome. Come early and stay late. _By Order_. This soul-stirring manifesto, which had the hearty approval both of the president and treasurer (who carefully revised the spelling), threw some satisfactory light on the mystery.
Who were the "carefully selected gentlemen" was still obscure, although it was generally held that Fellsgarth only contained nine individuals answering to that particular description.
What was more important was that Mr and Mrs Stratton were at the back of the venture.
If so, it was not a swindle, and the grub was pretty sure to be right.
The new price list, moreover, was very satisfactory, and on the whole the hours were approved of. When the eleven o'clock bell sounded, on the Wednesday morning, a general movement was made for the Watch-Tower Gate, where, firmly entrenched behind a clean counter piled up with the good things a schoolboy holds dear, demurely stood D'Arcy and Lickford, looking very anxious and scared. At judiciously selected points among the crowd their friends looked on sympathetically. After the laughter which had greeted the discovery had died away, an awkward pause ensued.
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