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WHEN the morning of the seventh of April broke over Speid and his / companions, they lashed the damaged pole together with a coil of rope / and harnessed the wheelers. Progress was possible, though at a very / slow pace, and they started again, the guard and outside passengers / walking; from the coach's interior, which cradled the slumbers of the / Glasgow merchant, there came no sound.
It was past eight when they crossed the South Lour where the river / curls round Blackport before plunging into the Basin of Kaims on its / seaward course; it was almost nine when Gilbert saw Jimmy Stirk's / anxious face at the door of the Crown.