this fashion?  Then he remembered his violence the night before, and the fact that the servant girl had heard if she had not seen it.  He could not drop his responsibility in regard to Ruby, even if he would.  So, as a first step, he sent in a message to John Crumb, at Bungay, to tell him that Ruby Ruggles had gone off with a box to Beccles.  John Crumb went open-mouthed with the news to Joe Mixet, and all Bungay soon knew that Ruby Ruggles had run away.

After sending his message to Crumb the old man still sat thinking, and at last made up his mind that he would go to his landlord.  He held a part of his farm under Roger Carbury, and Roger Carbury would tell him what he ought to do.  A great trouble had come upon...