I quite understand," he said, as Gard looked quickly up. "And it does
you credit, my boy; but there are not very many men would do it."
"Well, I'm afraid I must leave you to it," said the Vicar, and did so.
CHAPTER XXXVIII
HOW THEY LAID THE DEVIL BY THE HEELS
When it began to be noised abroad that Gard was going to and fro across
the Coupee, even by night, as if nothing had ever happened there, the
Sark men shrugged their shoulders and said, "Pardie!--sooner him than
me--oui-gia!"
It was obviously necessary, however, that this should be known. Even the
cormorant does not fish where fish are never found.
But when he went to and fro by night, he went mailed--according to the
Doctor's ideas--and armed--according to the Senechal's; and each night
the Doctor and the Senechal went quietly down, some time in advance, and
lay hidden on the headlands with their guns, and never took their eyes
off him and all his surroundings, while he was in sight.
And Gard, in nearing the Little Sark cutting, always kept carefully to
the right-hand side of the path, though it was somewhat crumbly there
and had fallen away down the slope towards Grande Greve.
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