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One was a little like a hoe, one was a little like a spadeand the last was a very strange object, something between a spade and ascythe. She never exhibited the least inclination for any occupation andArabella was her only visitor. Stephen offered the man the rod ofsilver and the red velvet cloth but the man did not take them. In all that desolate landscape there was only one tree -atwisted hawthorn not far from where they stood.

He dugsome more and he began to suspect that, though the gentleman called it a log,this was in fact an entire tree. Is it true that she wanted Strange to inflict leprosy upon me? Oh, probably, sighed Drawlight. Her ladyship requires nothing more. That is a plan.