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A Dog with a Bad Name

CHAPTER TEN
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It was seventy miles away as the crow flies.

Jeffreys had the way there by heart.

He knew what time the trains left York, what were the junctions along the line, and how far the nearest railway station would take him to his journey's end.
Now, however, it was a question of walking, not riding.

The two pounds in his pocket, all he possessed, scarcely seemed his at all as long as Mr Frampton's school bill was unsettled.

At any rate, it was too precious to squander in railway fares for a man who could walk for nothing.
It was a long, harassing journey, over moors and along stony roads.


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