{"id":1912,"date":"2026-09-22T06:00:05","date_gmt":"2026-09-22T05:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/?p=1912"},"modified":"2026-09-20T17:47:42","modified_gmt":"2026-09-20T16:47:42","slug":"chapter-31-the-dandy-highwayman-cafe278","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/2026\/09\/22\/chapter-31-the-dandy-highwayman-cafe278\/","title":{"rendered":"Chapter 31 The Dandy Highwayman Cafe278"},"content":{"rendered":"<hr width=\"100%\" \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/2026\/09\/21\/chapter-31-the-dandy-highwayman-cafe277\/\">Previous<\/a> &#8211; Book1 Page278 \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/2026\/09\/23\/chapter-31-the-dandy-highwayman-cafe279\/\">Next<\/a><\/p>\n<hr width=\"100%\" \/>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019ll see <em>The Warren<\/em> tomorrow,\u201d says EarlyBird, \u201cand it\u2019s not exactly surrounded by wolves. We hardly ever see one.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhere are you staying tonight?\u201d asks HopAlong.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Garrison has fixed up everything,\u201d replies KristalClear, \u201cwe\u2019re spending two nights with Constable Burgess at his house in Penny Bridge, and then we\u2019re back in Ulverston at the barracks for one night, before we take the ferry home.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOh, and Dave,\u201d says EarlyBird with a smile, \u201cin her letter, Kristal\u2019s already told me how you got your nickname, NutJob. You\u2019re into machinery and gadgets, and anything that moves! You\u2019re working with Faraday on labour saving devices!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>HopAlong\u2019s eyes light up, \u201cNutJob? You make things? Labour saving devices? You couldn\u2019t design me some self milking goats could you?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Walking smartly through town, Bob Burgess is hoping to join the meeting before it\u2019s all over. He enters the caf\u00e9 just in time to see them all sitting at the table with lots of empty tea cups. Introductions are made, and pleasantries exchanged.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNeed the little boy\u2019s room,\u201d says HopAlong, \u201call that tea you see,\u201d and he slowly makes his way to the back of the caf\u00e9.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can\u2019t stay long, but I wanted to let you know that the Garrison is laying on a carriage for us at 19:00,\u201d says Burgess, \u201cyou two have another hour in town still, and I\u2019ll be back here in time for the journey to Penny Bridge.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Unnoticed by the two youngsters Burgess looks EarlyBird in the eye, and quickly winks. She takes the hint.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cKristal, let me show you where the ladies\u2019 room is.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Now alone with NutJob, Burgess keeps his cheerful chat going.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe\u2019s a nice girl isn\u2019t she?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cVery nice!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019re lucky to find somebody like that. It was going to be only her originally. But Commander Crush mentioned that<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr width=\"100%\" \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/2026\/09\/21\/chapter-31-the-dandy-highwayman-cafe277\/\">Previous<\/a> &#8211; Book1 Page278 \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/2026\/09\/23\/chapter-31-the-dandy-highwayman-cafe279\/\">Next<\/a><\/p>\n<hr width=\"100%\" \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Previous &#8211; Book1 Page278 \u2013 Next \u201cYou\u2019ll see The Warren tomorrow,\u201d says EarlyBird, \u201cand it\u2019s not exactly surrounded by wolves. We hardly ever see one.\u201d \u201cWhere are you staying tonight?\u201d asks HopAlong. \u201cThe Garrison has fixed up everything,\u201d replies KristalClear, \u201cwe\u2019re spending two nights with Constable Burgess at his house in Penny Bridge, and then &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/2026\/09\/22\/chapter-31-the-dandy-highwayman-cafe278\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Chapter 31 The Dandy Highwayman Cafe278&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1912"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1912"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1912\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1913,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1912\/revisions\/1913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}