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None the less was it probable, as her mistress well knew, that if slip-rail or panel was down she would be at her old home by morning light.

It was pitch dark, and I had just crawled through a slip-rail, making for a pad to Braun's, when I brought up all standing, with my outstretched hands on a horse's rump.

Darkness had settled down when horse and rider reached the slip-rail at the entrance of the field before Frank’s house.

"It might be rather a lark—" A sharp sprint brought him up with the other two boys, who were awaiting his arrival seated on the top of a slip-rail, Mollie having gone in search of Prudence and Grizzel.

So long as he was within the grounds of the house he felt confident and cheerful, but when he reached the slip-rail and looked over into the land beyond he felt some of his courage oozing away.