Here is what Adam Callow knew, and how long he had known it, and what it had cost him, and none of it had ever been said out loud to anybody.
He came to Ashcombe in the August of 1812. He was nineteen. His mother had died at Amesbury in 1806 and his father was a carrier and was no use to anybody, and a man at Devizes told a man at Ashcombe that there was a boy in Amesbury who could get a hand on a horse that nobody else could, and that was the whole of the interview.
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