

E-text prepared by Lionel Sear



DICK AND BROWNIE.

by

Mabel Quiller-Couch






CONTENTS.


Chapter.

   I.       THE ESCAPE.

   II.      A NIGHT SCARE.

   III.     WHAT THE MORNING BROUGHT.

   IV.      MISS ROSE.

   V.       SURPRISES.

   VI.      HULDAH GOES SHOPPING.

   VII.     A MEETING AND AN ALARM.

   VIII.    TRACKED DOWN.

   IX.      TO THE RESCUE.

   X.       ONE SUMMER'S AFTERNOON.

   XI.      HULDAH'S NEW HOME.

   XII.     HAPPY HOURS.




CHAPTER I.


THE ESCAPE.

The summer sun blazed down scorchingly on the white road, on the wide
stretch of moorland in the distance, and on the little coppice which
grew not far from the road.

The only shady spot for miles, it seemed, was that one under the
trees in the little coppice, where the caravan stood; but even there
the heat was stifling, and the smell of hot blistering varnish
mingled with the faint scent of honeysuckle and dog-roses.

Not a sound broke the stillness, for even the birds had been driven
to shelter and to silence, and except for the rabbits very few other
live things lived about there, to make any sounds.  That afternoon
there were four other live things in the coppice, but they too were
silent, for they were wrapped in deep sleep.  The four were a man and
a woman, a horse and a dog, and of all the things in that stretch of
country they were the most unlovely.  The man and the woman were
dirty, untidy, red-faced and coarse