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NOT five minutes' walk from Lowercoombe Farm, situated a little back from the high road, was a large-sized, detached cottage called Coombe Villa, standing in its own grounds. It had been unoccupied for some months, but one day towards the end of March, as Nellie and Bessie Maple went by on their way to school, they noticed a large furniture van drawn up in front of the garden gate, and several men engaged in carrying different articles of household furniture into the cottage. They paused a moment to watch, and then ran on to make up for lost time, wondering who the new inhabitants of Coombe Villa were, and wishing they knew all about them.
On their return journey they found the van had gone, and an old man was sweeping up the straw and litter that strewed the garden path, whilst a maidservant stood at one of the open windows looking out.