I
will tell him to send enough for two"--which he accordingly did.
On reaching the office, he told his next brother (whom he had made an
under-ranger) to go to the tree he described, and bring back the bundle
he should find concealed therein. "You can go there and back," he said,
"in an hour and a half, and I shall want the bundle by that time."
The brother, whose name I never rightly caught, set out at once. As soon
as he was gone, George took from a drawer the feathers and bones of
quails, that he had shown my father on the morning when he met him. He
divided them in half, and made them into two bundles, one of which he
docketed, "Bones of quails eaten, XIX. xii. 29, by Professor Hanky,
P.O.W.W., &c." And he labelled Panky's quail bones in like fashion.
Having done this, he returned to the gaol, but on his way he looked in at
the Mayor's, and left a note saying that he should be at the gaol, where
any message would reach him, but that he did not wish to meet Professors
Hanky and Panky for another couple of hours. It was now about half-past
twelve, and he caught sight of a crowd coming quietly out of the temple,
whereby he knew that Hanky would soon be at the Mayor's house.
Dinner was brought in almost at the moment when George returned to the
gaol. As soon as it was over George said:-
"Are you quite sure you have made no mistake about the way in which you
got the permit out of the Professors?"
"Quite sure.
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