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From time to time, when they got into the open country, Freda was alarmed by the sight of another cart some distance behind them on the road. For long tracts the hedges, the winds in the road, the hills and vales, hid it from her sight, but again and again it would reappear, filling her with misgivings.
"Barnabas," she said at last, when the farmer asked what it was she was turning round to look at so constantly, "there's another cart following us; I am sure of it. Who do you think it is?"