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Rufus Myrthe put down that letter with a faint smile.
"Same old moonshiney, good-hearted piece of impossibility as ever," he said to himself. "This won't be much use, I reckon. I must try my friend the parson again about those registers. Maybe I'll find some dates in the old man's letters that'll help me. It's all very fine for father to say I'm only to tell the usurper to 'get,' but I guess it'll take something more than telling to make Dick Udale clear out."