'
'Some girl!' said Dobbes.
But worse happened than the evil so lightly mentioned.
Silverbridge did go over to Killancodlem; and presently there came
back a man with a cart, who was to return with a certain not small
proportion of his luggage.
'It's hardly honest, you know,' said Reginald Dobbes.
CHAPTER 39
Killancodlem
Mr Dobbes was probably right in his opinion that hotels, tourists,
and congregations of men are detrimental to shooting. Crummie-
Toddie was in all respects suited for sport. Killancodlem, though
it had the name of a shooting-place, certainly was not so. Men
going there took their guns. Gamekeepers were provided with
gillies,--and, in a moderate quantity, game. On certain grand days
a deer or two might be shot,--and would be very much talked about
afterwards. But a glance at the place would suffice to show that
Killancodlem was not intended for sport. It was a fine castellated
mansion, with beautiful though narrow grounds, standing in the
valley of the Archay River, with a mountain behind and the river
in front.
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