Part 40 (2/2)

Then fro of release as fro-- at first gently, then as hard as he could go, till at a turn of the lane he caught sight of Pete Warboys prowling along with his dog a couple of hundred yards away

The dog caught sight of To hard, uttered a yelp, tucked its tail between its legs, and began to run Then Pete turned to see what had startled the dog, caught sight of To no accuser, took it for granted that he was being chased; so away he ran, big stick in hand, his long arround at a pace which kept hi exhilarating in hunting his ene dread

”Wonder what he has been doing,” said the boy, laughing to hih the wood and disappeared, leaving his pursuer breathless in the lane ”Well, I sha'n't run after hiood look round where the lane curved away now, and ran downhill past the big sand-pit at the dip; and then on away down to where the little river gurgled along, sending flashes of sunshi+ne in all directions, while the country rose on the other side in a beautiful slope of furzy co wood, and closely-cut coppice, pretty well filled with gaht Tom; and then he uttered a lohistle, and broke into a trot, with a new burden on his back in the shape of the bath-chair, for he had suddenly recollected Uncle Ja been out for a ride

Sure enough when he reached the garden Davidfor you, sir Yes, there he goes again”

”Co, uncle,” cried Tom; and he ran into the house, and encountered Uncle Richard

”Oh, here you are at last Get out the bath-chair quickly,bitterly Little things make hiht, uncle--round directly,” cried To off to the coach-house ”Phe hot I'vethe chair round to the front door, and as he passed the studya dolefulheard

”All right, uncle, here it is,” cried To upon a stick, and reat plaid shawl

”Here, take my arm, Jem,” he said

”I can walk by myself,” was the pettish reply ”Then you've come back, sir Tired of your job, I suppose Oh dear! oh dear!”

”I really forgot it for a bit, uncle,” said To else but forget Ah! Oh! Oh! I'roaned, as he sank back in the chair and took hold of the handle

”I'll pull you, uncle,” said Toly

”You pull it so aardly--Oh dear et in the way so when I want to see the country Go behind”

”All right, uncle Which ould you like to go? Through the village?”

”What! down there by the churchyard? Ugh! No; go along that upper lane which leads by the fir-wood and the sand-pits The air is fit to breathe there”

”Yes, glorious,” said Uncle Richard cheerily ”Off you go, donkey, and bring your uncle back with a good appetite for dinner”

”All right, uncle Now, Uncle Jaht”

”Be careful, sir, be careful,” cried the invalid; and he kept up his regularas Tom pushed the chair out into the lane, and then round past the mill, and on toward the woods

”How much did your uncle spend over workpeople for that whi off ood deal, I believe”

”Yes, yes; oh dear ood deal, no doubt Keep out of the sand; it jolts me”