Tales of the Long Bow
Anyhow, before I left that village I had told one man what I had seen, and he told me he had seen it also. But he had seen it actually moving, in dusk turning to dark; the whole great house, with its high columns, moving across the fields like a great ship sailing on land."
Owen Hood sat up suddenly, with awakened eyes, and struck the table.
"Look here," he cried, with a new ring in his voice, "we must all go down to Ponder's End and bring this business to a finish."
"Do you think you will bring it to a finish?" asked Pierce gloomily; "or can you tell what sort of a finish?"
"Yes," replied Hood resolutely. "I think I can finish it, and I think I know what the finish will be. The truth is, my friend, I think I understand the whole thing now. And as I told you before, Wilding White, so far from being deluded by imaginary bogies, is a gentleman very exact in his statements. In this matter he has been very exact. That has been the whole mystery about him—that he has been very much too exact."
"What on earth do you mean by that?" asked Pierce.
"I mean," said the lawyer, "that I have suddenly remembered the phrase he used. It
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