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Although the letter from Mr William Goodall to Squire Dove, in which the merchant promised to visit them, proved consoling at Wedwell Hall, still the fate of the aeronauts was the great engrossing topic that grew in intensity hour after hour, so that reports of the vaguest kind were eagerly caught at by the gamekeeper and Lucy, who knew how deeply Miss Dove especially was concerned about Harry Goodall; nor was Lucy herself much less anxious as to Trigger, so that she took every opportunity of acquiring each scrap of information that she could gather, both as to where the balloon had descended and whether Croft had been arrested or any information had been obtained as to his whereabouts.
One of the earliest, if not reliable, sources of intelligence was generally to be met with in the person of Doctor Peters, who was an inveterate newspaper reader, subscribing to many of the metropolitan and local papers. Knowing this, Bennet, who was very eager for news, determined to waylay the doctor. Meeting him on the confines of the park with a newspaper in his hand, he at once accosted him after touching his hat, --