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He was sitting on deck when I went out, and his missis too, but neither of 'em spoke a word. I picked up my broom and went on sweeping, when suddenly I 'eard a voice at the gate I thought I knew, and in came my wife. "Ho!" she ses, calling out. "Ain't you gone to meet that gal at Cleopatra's Needle yet? You ain't going to keep 'er waiting, are you?" "H'sh!" I ses.
Lightowler, said the other, turning round with a rather ugly snarl. 'I 'eard you, replied Uncle Solomon, calmly, 'that was why I spoke. Come, come, 'Umpage, don't be nasty we've been neighbours long enough to drop nagging.
"Business. Private!" literally growled the visitor. "Well, what is it?" said the doctor shortly. "'Eard you wanted a skipper, and come up." "Well," said Uncle Paul, looking very hard at his unprepossessing visitor, while Rodd felt as if he wanted to laugh, but held the desire in check, "I may want one by and by, and a crew too; but I must have a ship first." "What sort?"
There weren't no other sounds, for it was as still a night as could be. But there was someone whistling, and Mrs. Rowe 'eard it too. If you don't believe me, you can ask her. I nearly dropped on the floor, and I knew from that minute that my 'usband was going to die. "You see, sir, my 'usband was never what you might call a religious man.
"I 'eard it from that French woman, Dinah Mer I never can pernounce the name," continued Mrs. Rickett. "Pore creature, what a 'orrible end; though it's a mercy it was so sudden like. But, as I was saying, sir, she lodged in my 'ouse last spring, and she come back only three days before the murder. She never 'ad much to say for 'erself, an' I judged she was stiff and proud.
"Drown'd me if I ever 'eard sich 'orrid talk in all my days, an' I've groomed for a earl ah, an' a markis afore now!" Having said which, he clenched his fists, squared his shoulders and launched himself at me like a charging bull.
An' I says to 'im, "If you touch me again, I'll go ter the police-station, thet I will!" Well, that frightened 'im a bit, an' then didn't I let 'im 'ave it! "You call yerself a man," says I, "an' you ain't fit ter clean the drains aht." You should 'ave 'eard the language 'e used. "You dirty old woman," says 'e, "you go away; you're always interferin' with me."
I remember a man whose pal broke 'is leg while they was working together unloading a barge; and he went off to break the news to 'is pal's wife. A kind-'earted man 'e was as ever you see, and, knowing 'ow she would take on when she 'eard the news, he told her fust of all that 'er husband was killed.
Just as I was leavin' the kitching I 'eard Mr. Fitzgerald a-comin' in, and, turnin' round, looked at the clock, that 'avin' been my custom when my late 'usband came in, in the early mornin', I bein' a-preparin' 'is meal." "And the time was?" asked Mr. Gorby, breathlessly. "Five minutes to two o'clock," replied Mrs. Sampson. Mr. Gorby thought for a moment.
And, to cut the long story short, I have ventured to purchase for you as a little present the cat Alexander. I have uttered a cry of horror, but it is not 'eard because of Miss Marion's cry of joy. 'Oh, Captain Bassett, she has said, 'how very splendid of you! Ever since I first saw him have I loved Alexander. I cannot tell you how grateful I am.
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