Huxtable's school.
"James came into contact with this fellow Hayes because the man
was a tenant of mine, and James acted as agent. The fellow was
a rascal from the beginning; but in some extraordinary way
James became intimate with him. He had always a taste for low
company. When James determined to kidnap Lord Saltire it was
of this man's service that he availed himself. You remember
that I wrote to Arthur upon that last day. Well, James opened
the letter and inserted a note asking Arthur to meet him in a
little wood called the Ragged Shaw, which is near to the school.
He used the Duchess's name, and in that way got the boy to come.
That evening James bicycled over -- I am telling you what he has
himself confessed to me -- and he told Arthur, whom he met in
the wood, that his mother longed to see him, that she was
awaiting him on the moor, and that if he would come back into
the wood at midnight he would find a man with a horse, who would
take him to her. Poor Arthur fell into the trap. He came to
the appointment and found this fellow Hayes with a led pony.
Arthur mounted, and they set off together.
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