Milton 54 Landbeach 54¾ Denny Abbey 58 Chittering 58¾ Stretham Bridge (cross Great Ouse River) 61¾ Stretham 63¼ Thetford Level Crossing 64½ Ely 67½ Chettisham Station and Level Crossing 69½ Littleport 72½ Littleport Bridge (cross Great Ouse River) 73½ Brandon Creek (cross Little Ouse River) 76¾ Southery 78¾ Modney Bridge (cross Sams Cut Drain) 80¼ Hilgay (cross Wissey River) 81¾ Fordham 82¾ Denver 84 Downham Market 85¼ Wimbotsham 86½ Stow Bardolph 87¼ South Runcton (cross River Nar) 89¼ Setchey 92¼ West Winch 93¾ Hardwick Bridge 95¼ King's Lynn 97¼ [Illustration: THE CAMBRIDGE ELY AND KING'S LYNN ROAD] I "SISTER ANNE, Sister Anne, do you see anyone coming?" asks Fatima in the story of Bluebeard. Clio, the Muse of History, shall be my Sister Anne. I hereby set her down in the beginnings of the Cambridge Road, bid her be retrospective, and ask her what she sees. "I see," she says dreamily, like some medium or clairvoyant,--"I see a forest track leading from the marshy valley of the Thames to the still more marshy valley of the Lea. The tribes who inhabit the land are at once fierce and warlike, and greedy for trading with merchants from over the narrow channel that separates Britain from Gaul. They are fair-haired and blue-eyed, they are dressed in the skins of wild animals, and their chieftains wear many ornaments of red gold." Then she is silent, for Clio, like her eight sisters, is a very ancient personage, and like the aged, although she knows much, cannot recall sights and scenes without a deal of mental fumbling. "And what else do you see?" "There comes along the forest track a great concourse of soldiers. Never before were such seen in the land. They form the advance-guard of an invading army, and the tribes presently fly from them, for these are the conquering Romans, whose fame has come before them. There are none who can withstand those soldiers." "Many a tall Roman warrior, doubtless, sleeps where he fell, slain by wounds or disease in that advance?"