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monstrous banks of earth, backed with steel both over the crests of the
Downs above and across the dip of the valley. It needed something of
common size to mark the nature of the scale. The train that came
rattling from Sevenoaks athwart their vision, and presently plunged into
the tunnel out of their sight, looked by contrast with them like some
small-sized automatic toy.
"They have made all the woods this side of Ightham out of bounds," said
one, "and moved the board that was out by Knockholt two miles and more
this way."
"It is the least they could do," said the youngest, after a pause. "They
are trying to take the wind out of Caterham's sails."
"It's not enough for that, and--it is almost too much for us," said the
third.
"They are cutting us off from Brother Redwood. Last time I went to him
the red notices had crept a mile in, either way. The road to him along
the Downs is no more than a narrow lane."
The speaker thought. "What has come to our brother Redwood?"
"
Why?" said the eldest brother.
The speaker hacked a bough from his pine. "He was like--as though he
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