Thomas Kinkade Lakeside Manor painting

Thomas Kinkade Lakeside Manor painting
Thomas Kinkade lake arrowhead painting

"It was short and terse, the warning, as I now read it to my companion:
""The game is up. Hudson has told all. Fly for your life."
"Victor Trevor sank his face into his shaking hands. "It must be that, I suppose," said he. "This is worse than death, for it means disgrace as well. But what is the meaning of these" headkeepers "and" hen-pheasants ?"
""It means nothing to the message, but it might mean a good deal to us if we had no other means of discovering the sender. You see that he has begun by writing" The... game... is, "and so on. Afterwards he had, to fulfil the prearranged cipher, to fill in any two words in each space. He would naturally use the first words which came to his mind, and if there were so many which referred to sport among them, you may be tolerably sure that he is either an ardent shot or interested in breeding. Do you know anything of this Beddoes?"
""Why, now that you mention it," said he, `I remember that my poor father used to have an invitation from him to shoot over his preserves every autumn."