the way, I wish you would see if they have done any damage, and speak to the police about it); and so, I suppose, from my brain it must have got into yours while you were asleep. Curious, no doubt, and I am sorry it gave you such a bad night. You had better be as much in the fresh air as you can to-day.”
“Oh, it's all right now; but I think I will go over to the Lodge and see if I can get a game with any of them. And you?”
“I have enough to do for this morning; and this afternoon, if I am not interrupted, there is my drawing.”
“To be sure—I want to see that finished very much.”
No damage was discoverable in the shrubbery.
Mr. Anstruther surveyed with faint interest the
site of the rose garden, where the uprooted post
still lay, and the hole it had occupied remained
unfilled. Collins, upon inquiry made, proved
to be better, but quite unable to come to his
work. He expressed, by the mouth of his wife,
a hope that he hadn't done nothing wrong
clearing away them things. Mrs. Collins added
