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rol ed over Yan"s feet. He licked his bare knees and arms, and jumped up at him, almost knocking the boy down. Yan laughed, and fel on Timmy, rolling over and over with him. Julian, Dick and Anne watched and laughed.
    But George was not pleased. Timmy was her dog, and she didn"t like him to make a fuss of anyone she disapproved of. She was glad that Yan was safe but she stil didn"t like him!
    So she scowled, and Julian nudged Dick to make him see the scowl, George saw him and scowled worse than ever.
    „You"l be sorry you gave him sweets," she said. „He"l be round us worse than ever now."
    Yan came up after a minute or two, sucking al three sweets at once, so that his right cheek was very swol en indeed.
    „Come, see my Granddad," he said, earnestly, talking even worse than usual because of the sweets. „I tell him "bout you all. He tell you many things."
    He stared at them al seriously. „Grandad likes sweets too," he added, solemnly. „Iss. Iss, he do."

    Julian laughed. „Al right. We"ll come and see him tomorrow afternoon. Now you clear off or you won"t get any more sweets. Understand?"
    „Iss," said Yan, nodding his head. He took the three sweets out of his mouth, looked at them to see how much he had sucked them, and then put them back again.
    „Clear off now," said Julian again. „But wait a bit, I"ve just thought; how did you get away from that beach this afternoon? Did you climb that cliff?"
    „No," said Yan, shifting his sweets to the other cheek. „I came the Wreckers" Way. My Grandad learnt it me."
    He was off and away before anyone could ask him another question. The four looked at one another. „Did you hear that?" said Julian. „He went the Wreckers" Way. What"s that, do you suppose? We must have been on one of the beaches the wreckers used long, long ago."
    „Yes. But how did he get off that beach, and away into safety?" said Dick. „I"d like to know more about the Wreckers" Way! I certainly think we"d better pay a visit to old Great-Grandad tomorrow. He might have some very interesting things to tell us."
    „Well, we"ll go and see him," said George, getting up. „But just you remember what I said.
    Yan wil pester us more than ever now we"ve encouraged him."
    „Oh well, he doesn"t seem such a bad kid after all," said Dick, remembering that sudden smile and the eager acceptance of a few sweets. „And if he persuades Grandad to let us into the secret of Wreckers" Way, we might have some fun doing a bit of exploring. Don"t you think so, Ju?"
    „It might even lead to an adventure," said Julian, laughing at Anne"s serious face. „Cheer up, Anne. I can"t even smell an adventure in Tremannon. I"m just pul ing your leg!"
    „I think you"re wrong," said Anne. „If you can"t smell one somewhere, I can. I don"t want to, but I can!"

Chapter Five
YAN - AND HIS GRANDAD

    The next day was Sunday. It made no difference to the time that the two Penruthlans got up, however. As Mrs Penruthlan said, the cows and horses, hens and ducks didn"t approve of late Sunday breakfasts! They wanted attending to at exactly the same time each day!
    „Wil you be going to church?" asked Mrs Penruthlan. „It"s a beautiful walk across the fields to Tremannon Church, and you"d like Parson. He"s a good man, he is."
    „Yes, we"re all going," said Julian. „We can tie Timmy up outside. He"s used to that. And we thought we"d go up and see your old shepherd this afternoon, Mrs Penruthlan, and see what tales he has to tell."
    „Yan wil show you the way," said the farmer"s wife, bustling off to her cooking. „I"l get you a fine Sunday dinner. Do you like fresh fruit salad with cream?"
    „Rather!" said everyone at once.
    „Can"t we help you to do something?" said Anne. „I"ve just seen al the peas you"re going to shell. Piles of them! And don"t you want help with those red currant? I love getting the currants off their stalks with a fork!"
    „Well, you"l have a few odd minutes before you go to church, I expect," said Mrs