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I would as soon try to drive wild oxen as to persuade a Carruthers . '' He was not able to start for Ulverston until the end of the afternoon . It was full two hours ' ride by rail from London , and all the way there the lawyer was worrying himself with conjectures , and trying to solve what he thought honestly the greatest mystery he had ever known . It was six o'clock on a bright May evening when he reached Ulverston . He ordered a fly , and drove at once to the Priory . More than half that busy town of Rutsford belonged to the Carruthers . They were lords of the manor , masters of the soil .