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I gave Owd Jerry and the childer their tea, but I wouldn't sit down wi' 'em misen, but kept going to the windey to see if Mike and Amos were coming wi' the stirks. I looked out, happen six or seven times, and there was nobody on the road; but at last I set een on Mike and other lads frae the farms round about. They were carrying somebody on a hurdle."
Their clamour was caught by the fierce north wind, which had begun to sweep the hill, and was borne along till it reached the ears of a woman who was sitting sewing in a cottage some fifty yards further up the lane. She stepped to her door, opened it and listened. 'It's at Bessie's, she said; 'whativer's wrong wi' the childer? By this time Arthur had begun to run towards her.
She saw that he was suffering, and with intuitive delicacy, she desisted from pressing her wants, though her need was great. "Well, well, yer honor, many's the good penny ye have given me and the childer, and maybe the next time I see you you'll have more change."
An' at lung length it cooms out 'at she'd been thrawin' sheep's eyes, as t' sayin' is, at Rip for many a day. Yo' see, her childer was grown up, an' she'd nowt mich to do, an' were allus fond of a dog. Soa she axes me if I'd tek somethin' to dhrink.
You and Hannah'll deal honest wi 'em? The question was unexpected, and as he put it with a startling energy the dying man raised himself on his elbow, and looked sharply at his brother. 'D' yo think I'd cheat yo, or your childer, Sandy? cried Reuben, flushing and pricked to the heart. Sandy sank back again, his sudden qualm appeased. 'No, he said, his thoughts returning painfully to his son.
Yo're not knowing of any place, where they could gi' me a trial, away fro' the mills, if I'm such a firebrand? I'd take any wage they thought I was worth, for the sake of those childer. 'Don't you see what you would be? You'd be a knobstick. You'd be taking less wages than the other labourers all for the sake of another man's children.
Are they all as purty as you? she sez, and Jimmy sez, 'Purtier if anything, and she sez, 'I'll be steppin' over to-day to see yer ma, and Jim ran home and told them all, and they all got brushed and combed and actin' good, and in she comes, laving her carriage at the dure, and her in a long pink velvet cape draggin' behind her on the flure, and wide white fer all around it, her silk skirts creakin' like a bag of cabbage and the eyes of her just dancin' out of her head, and she says, 'These are fine purty childer ye have here, Mrs.
"I've got into daddy's great coat; he left it behind him." "Well, thin, I'll put the shawl round me own shoulders, for it's cowld I am. Are ya hungray, childer?" "No," said Dick, "but I'm direfully slapy?" "Slapy, is it? Well, down you get in the bottom of the boat, and here's the shawl for a pilla. I'll be rowin' again in a minit to keep meself warm." He buttoned the top button of the coat.
"It's two childer, sir," repeated Tim "two small childer as has got strayed away from their home you may have heard of it? and I'm a-taking them back, only I'm not rightly sure of the way, and I thought I thought, as it was the best to ax you, seeing as you've maybe heard " but here Tim's voice, which had been faltering somewhat, so keen and hard was the look directed upon him, came altogether to an end; and he grew so red and looked so uneasy that perhaps it was no wonder if Superintendent Boyds thought him a suspicious character.
'What mut th' child ged up theer for? asked Amos. 'Thaa talks like a chap as never hed no childer. At this rebuff Moses was silent; for not only was he a childless man, but until the day he saved the very child they were now seeking from the Green Fold Lodge, children had been nothing to him.
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