Probably the boy will recover in a day or two, when he gets
over his fright."
"But if he does not?" said Lady Eleanor.
"Why, if the doctor can't deal with it, the best thing we can do will
be to find the woman; and if she has bound the boy by force of her will
to be silent, to make her release him again. Where does she live?"
"No one knows," said Lady Eleanor, and repeated what Mrs. Fry had told
her.
"I never remember any one being pixy-led but that cider was at the
bottom of it," said Colonel George. "As to the dragon, I expect that
Jimmy Beer chanced upon an old stag which looked very big and terrible
in the mist, and that the print of his cloven hoof was the mark of his
slot in the ground. The moor is wide, but I cannot think it will be
very difficult to find this woman."
"I should be greatly relieved if we could, if only to prevent her from
playing such tricks in future," said Lady Eleanor.
"Then I will make it my business to find her," said Colonel George, "if
my father approves; and you need trouble yourself no more about the
matter, but leave it to me."
Old Lord Fitzdenys quite approved, and stumped off by himself to look
at a shrub which he could never induce to grow at his own place. Then
the children came running up to show their treasures, and Lady Eleanor
looked into Colonel George's face with eyes full of gratitude, and said
"How good of you! You never forget them, and you are rather inclined
to spoil them.
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