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On the 12th we set out for Wray in Lancashire, five miles, John Yeardley being our guide, taking his wife and Ann Stordy along with him in a taxed cart.

We called by the way at Thomas Barrow's, of Wenington Hall, and drank tea; then proceeded to Wray.

" This petition was presented by Sir Cecil Wray, who, on introducing it, spoke very respectfully of the society.

The whole range of both shores, with their bays and coves and promontories, can be traced; and the green islands are clustered in the centre; and the whole gradation of edifices is seen, from Wray Castle, on its rising ground, to the tiny boat-houses, each on its creek.

Here lyeth wrapt in clay, The body of William Wray: I have no more to say.

William L. White (A); 28Feb68; R430333. WHITE, WRAY P. The open door standards.

Wray P. White (A); 25Mar68; R432134.

By Jean Beaven Abernethy, Edith Lovejoy Pierce & Elizabeth Wray Taylor.

VERIFIED XII AGAINST A STONE WALL XIII 238 WRAY STREET XIV TRAPPED XV

CHAPTER XIII 238 WRAY STREET

Wray Street, once attained, was of an entirely different character, being lined with homes, usually humble enough outwardly, yet the throughfare was clean, and the small yards had generally an appearance of neatness in marked contrast to its surroundings.

Before morning, that saloon on Wray Street would unquestionably be deserted, except perhaps by its proprietor, and Mike would simply deny everything.

He drew the article forth curiously, and looked at it under the glow of the electric lightit was a small silver handled pen-knife, such as a lady might carry, a rather strange thing to be discovered in a dirt alley back of Wray Street.

" "Do you know where he hangs out?" "The last I saw of him was in a saloon known as Mike's Place over on Wray Street.

If the silver knife, with its call for help, had indeed been dropped by Natalie Coolidge, and she was being held a prisoner in the hands of villains on board the Seminole, why had she acted toward West as she did in that house on Wray Street?

" "She came from the place on Wray Street last night in an auto?"

" "And in that house on Wray Street where I met you again last night.

I suppose you were not there either?" "Wray Street?

The next day you discharged Sexton, and later he learned, and reported to me, that some one called you on the phone from Wray Street, and wanted you to come over there at once.

My appearance in Wray Street must have been quite a shock, and when I succeeded in escaping from their trap there, Hobart very evidently lost his head completely.

At a meeting of "The Wordsworth Society" held at Grasmere, in July 1881, it was proposed by one of the members, the Rev. H. D. Rawnsley, then Vicar of Wray, to erect some memorial at the parting-place of the brothers.

Whether, that is, the crag above the Pullwyke quarry, at the junction of the road to Water Barngates and the road to Wray and Outgate is to be selected, about two miles from Hawkshead; or whether we are to fix on the spot you have chosen, at the point about a mile north-east of Hawkshead, 'called in the ordnance map Outgate.' Of the two I incline to the former, for these reasons.

For in the poet's time the old Hawkshead and Outgate road at the Pullwyke corner ran at the very foot of the rising ground (roughly speaking) parallel to and some 60 to 100 yards west of the present road from the Pull to Wray.

" This petition was presented by Sir Cecil Wray, who, on introducing it, spoke very respectfully of the Society.