CHAPTER FIVE
The Miller
“B
ut
yesterday a king,” remarked Mr. Campion as he walked across the heath to the mill with Guffy and Eager-Wright the following morning. “To-day, a poor gentleman come about the trouble. There’s a natty line in cheap philosophy somewhere there.”
“We drop the Hereditary Paladin business, then?” said Eager-Wright, not without relief.
Campion nodded. “From now on,” he said primly, “I get no more respect than my naturally superior intellect deserves.”
Guffy, who had not been listening to the conversation, but who had been surveying the scene with approval, turned. On the soil of his own county he was no longer the diffident, affable soul he had been on the Continent. Here he was a man of information.
“What a pity they took down the old house,” he said. “It mus
