[Devon Boys by George Manville Fenn]@TWC D-Link bookDevon Boys CHAPTER NINE 6/10
He started off to walk to Barnstaple." "Your father has ?" I cried involuntarily.
"Why, that's where my father has gone." "What! To Barnstaple, Sep ?" I nodded. "I say," he said, "I hope they won't meet one another." "Why ?" I exclaimed. "Because they might quarrel.
I say, Sep, I wish your father and my father were good friends like we are." I shook my head at that, and felt rather lofty. "I don't see how that can ever be," I replied; and then I felt quite uncomfortable as I recalled my father being uneasy about old Jonas watching us that morning.
I felt, too, that it would be much worse now if Jonas got to know that there was a mine upon the estate, and it seemed as if we were going to be at the beginning of a good deal of trouble. "Father went up the Gap after you had gone," said Bigley, "and I saw him go right up to the place where we blew down the big rock, and when I saw him go there I went indoors and got his spy-glass and watched him out of the window." "I say, you oughtn't to watch people," I said sharply. "I know that," replied Bigley; "but I was afraid there was going to be a bother, and I wanted to tell you if there was." "Well, what did he do ?" "Why, if he didn't seem to make it all out exactly just where we had been, and he followed down the place where the stone fell, and then went on down till he came to the rough part where the rock was all bared, and stooped and looked it all over and over.
Oh, he has got eyes, my father has.
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