THE ANGELS OF MONS
of several yards he could discern quite plainly that there had been mischief.
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The chosen plot was in a disgraceful state. At first the Prebendary thought that the Custos's sandy tom-cat had scaled the wire entanglement on top of the dividing wall; then he felt inclined to set the ruin down to Scamp, the Bishop's wire-haired fox-terrier. And then coming close, he put on his spectacles, and wondered what had been at work.
For the level which had been so carefully established was all undone. At first the Doctor thought it was the mischief of some random, dancing beast, this confusion of hills and valleys which had taken the place of the billiard-table surface of the night before. And then it reminded him of certain raised maps which he had seen in Diocesan Training Schools. And then it reminded
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