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BY NATURE painstaking, particularly when he was doing anything for himself, his commando training had impressed upon Robert to leave as little as possible to chance in all his undertakings, and that afternoon, when he was bicycling over the beautiful Hindhead country, he was confident he had got all his plans down to a nicety.
One thing only was not pleasing him. The bicycle had turned out to be something of an old crock, but it was the best one the man at the shop would let out on hire, even then making him deposit the full selling price of the machine, with the arrangement that when he returned it he would get all the money back, less ten shillings a day for the hire.