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 Pinchington. You'll be one too many for the village lads. Quite a hero, you'll find yourself!"

Jan was not so sure what to say to that; and he could only be as fervid as before when Mr. Devereux slipped a sovereign into his hand, though it was the first that he had received all at once in all his schooldays.