“Do you know, ma’am? Indeed, and how, if you please?”
“Why, Mr. Quin, it is too long a story to tell you how now; and besides, it concerns other people that I would rather not talk about; but this I can tell you, that the Rev. Mr. Campbell is not now at Medge, but——”
“Where is he then, ma’am, if you please to tell me that I may know where to seek for him? For I shall go to him first of all to ask after my niece.”
“He is quite at the opposite end of England. He is at Haymore Rectory, where we are all going.”
“The Lord be good to us! Is that so?” exclaimed Dandy joyfully.
“Indeed, yes! And now, Mr. Quin, if you wish to hear news of your niece, Julia, you will have to go all the way to Haymore with us. And I am so glad that we will not be separated. It will be so pleasant for us all to go together to Haymore.”
“Yes, Dandy, old boy, and you must stop with me, you know, until you find your niece,” added Ran.
“And will I see the Rev. Mr. James Campbell himself?” inquired Quin in some doubt.
“Of course you will. And as servants don’t change places as often in the old country as they do in the new, it is more than likely you will find your niece at the rectory, unless she is married,” said Judy.
“Or—dead, poor wench!” added Dandy.