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A remark by Gees set them all talking of place names--Oswaldstwhistle, Odder, Much Hadham, Nether Wallop, Wig-Wig, and other curiosities of naming, provided light chatter through which Gees observed that neither McCoul nor his daughter appeared to appreciate the really good plain cooking of the first two courses.

They scared Shaun Ammon by the churchyard wall at Odder, and then came straight here, evidently--came the same way as you did, since you heard that stone roll, up on the path.

Through the grayness Gees could see the narrow line of beech and elm trees which the worthies of Odder designated a wood, an unkempt shrubbery running parallel with the graveled drive to the gateway, with thick undergrowth of brushwood and saplings.

And round and about, from Odder on the one side to Dowlandsbar on the other, were tracts of fertile land in the valleys that might support cattle and sheep, or, broken up from pasturage, bear corn crops for the people of the castle.

At last he went on, crossed the ridge beyond, and dropped down into Odder to see a squat, square grey house quite near the church, a dwelling of far too imposing a size and character to rank in with the cottages, though it was of less content, evidently, than Dowlandsbar.

Conversant with pretty much all there is to know about Odder and its surrounding country--and ruins.

Practically all the cottages in Odder, and this house too, are built of stone from Locksborough.

I went there with a view to getting the sense of the meeting--the feel of Odder, I might call it.

But then, he reflected, her sister was in service at the vicarage, and all Odder had looked for a match between him and Madge Amber until these McCouls had come to live here.

And then, nearing Odder, they heard voices, and two beings loomed up and stopped within sight of them.

To all outward sense, he had experienced no more than a waking nightmare--but he knew now why the people of Odder feared to pass the standing stones in the dark, and knew that his own soul had been given a glimpse of the presences that throng hell.

From the clock in Odder church tower eleven strokes sounded to them faintly, not long after they had lain down with guns ready.

Midnight struck from Odder church tower, and, minutes later, the two lower lines of light in the wall of the keep vanished, and a second slit above became illuminated.

He looked over the curtain and saw Odder nestling in its valley to the west--it was just visible beyond the intervening ridge--and, eastward, Dowlandsbar and the rugged country beyond.

And most of all, escape if only for an hour or two from the oppression that hangs over Odder, and has hung over it all this summer.