? ? ? ? " 'That was there when your Ritual was drawn up,' said I as we drove past it.
? ? ? ? " 'It was there at the Norman Conquest in all probability,' he answered. 'It has a girth of twenty-three feet.'
? ? ? ? "Here was one of my fixed points secured.
? ? ? ? " 'Have you any old elms?' I asked.
? ? ? ? " 'There used to be a very old one over yonder, but it was struck by lightning ten years ago, and we cut down the stump.'
? ? ? ? " 'You can see where it used to be?'
? ? ? ? " 'Oh, yes.'
? ? ? ? " 'There are no other elms?'
? ? ? ? " 'No old ones, but plenty of beeches.'
? ? ? ? " 'I should like to see where it grew.'
? ? ? ? "We had driven up in a dog-cart, and my client led me away at once, without our entering the house, to the scar on the lawn where the elm had stood.
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