out to his side i looked across the to see whom he was to the great shadow you go too far sir said he angrily i didn t thought you would have gone so far a gentleman has the freedom to act as he choose without your being the spy upon him if we are to be friends you must not interfere in my affairs i don t like these secret doings said i and my father would not like them either your father can speak for himself and there is no secret said he it is you with your that make a secret ta ta ta i have no patience with such foolishness and without so much as a nod he turned his back upon me and started walking swiftly to west inch well i followed him and in the worst of for i had a feeling that there was some mischief in the wind and yet i could not for the life of me think what it all meant again i found myself over the whole mystery of this man s coming and of his long residence among us and whom could he have expected to meet at the was the fellow a spy and was it some brother spy who came to speak with him there but that was absurd what could there be to spy about in and besides major knew all about him and he would not show him such respect if there were anything amiss i had just got as far as this in my thoughts when i heard a cheery hail and there was the major himself coming down the hill m his house with his big held in this dog was the tower a savage creature and had caused more than one accident on the country side but the major was very fond of it and would never go out without it though he kept it tied with a good thick of leather well just as i was looking at the major waiting for him to come up he stumbled with his lame leg over a branch of and in recovering himself he let go his hold of the and in an instant there was the beast of a dog flying down the in my direction i did not like it i can tell you for there was neither stick nor stone about and i knew that the brute was dangerous the major was shrieking to it from behind and i think that the creature thought that he was it on so furiously did it rush but i knew its name and i thought that maybe that might give me the privileges of so as it came at me with hair and its nose back its two red eyes i cried out at the pitch of my lungs it had its effect for the beast passed me with a and flew along the path on the traces of de he turned at the shouting and seemed to take in the whole thing at a glance but he strolled along as slowly as ever my heart was in my mouth for him for the dog had never seen him before and i ran as � as my feet would carry me to drag it away from him but somehow as it bounded up and saw the finger and thumb which de held out behind him its the great shadow fury died suddenly away and we saw it its thumb of a and at his knee your dog then major he as its owner came up ah it is a fine beast � a fine pretty thing the major was blowing hard for he had covered the ground nearly as st as i had i was lest he might have hurt you he panted ta ta ta cried de he is a pretty gentle thing i love the dogs but i am glad that i have met you major for here is this young gentleman to whom i owe very much who has b to think that i am a spy is it not so jack i was so taken by his words that i could not lay my tongue to an answer but coloured up and looked like the awkward country lad that i was you know me major said de and i am sure that you will tell him that this could not be no no jack certainly not certainly cried the major thank you said de you know me and you do me justice and yourself i hope that your knee is better and that you will soon have your regiment given you i am well enough answered the major but they will never give me a place unless there is war and there will be no more war in my time � the tower oh i you think that said de with a smile well we shall see my friend he off his hat and briskly he walked off in the direction of west inch the major stood looking after him with thoughtful eyes and then asked me what it was that had made me think that he was a spy when i told him he said nothing but he shook his head and looked like a man who was ill at ease in his mind chapter vm the coming of the i never felt quite the same to our after that little business at the tower it was always in my mind that he was holding a secret from me indeed that he was all a secret together seeing that he always hung a over his past and when by chance that veil was for an instant away we always caught just a glimpse of something bloody and violent and dreadful upon the other side the very look of his body was terrible i bathed with him once in the summer and i saw then that he was with 