Chapter 33 LORD BROMLEY INTERVIEWS DUTTON.

Ere long a challenge and a cheer

Came floating down the wind;

'Twas Mermaid's note, and the huntsman's voice

We knew it was a find.

The dull air woke us from a trance

As sixty hounds joined chorus,

And away we went, with a stout dog fox

Not a furlong's length before us.

Lawrence.

Nearly every one was going by a late train