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But arter the smash I went 'ome t' m' grann' and hid the brooch. W'en I wos a-lookin' at it at night, I sawr 'er a-lookin' at it, and she grabbed it. I cut away with m'own property, not wishin' to be robbed by the ole gal." "What did you do then?" Tray wiped his mouth with the back of his sleeve. "I 'eard that Mr. Norman wos dead " "Yes, and you told Jessop so in the office. How did you know?"
And now there's bicycles and motor cars almost every day. Most on 'em just pokes their noses round, and then off they goes. Some wants to see the tomb inside, and then there's a big stone over an old doorway at the back o' the church, what they calls ''Arrowing o' 'Ell, though I don't know what it means. You've 'eard on it?
Ginger 'eard it, too, and as Peter Russet came into the room 'e tried all 'e could to attract 'is attention by rolling 'is 'ead from side to side. "Why, 'as Ginger gone to bed?" ses Peter. "Wot's up, Ginger?" "He's all right," ses Bill; "just a bit of a 'eadache."
"Bag o' " the old man dropped the Spider's nerveless hand to turn to Mrs. Trapes with a gloomy brow. "You 'eard that, ma'am you 'eard this perishin' porker call me a bag o' Joe, I blush for ye!
Brandon decided to satisfy his curiosity, support his dignity and indulge his amiability by staying where he was. "Good afternoon, Hogg," he said. "What's the disturbance for?" "Markisses Circus, sir," Hogg lifted his face like a large round sun. "Surely you'd 'eard of it, Archdeacon?"
"You are down on a chap, you are," said the other. "Hi don't mean no 'arm. 'E ought to know that, any'ow." He got unsteadily to his feet. "'E died to save us, 'E did. I 'eard a Y.M.C.A. bloke say them very words, 'E died on the cru-cru-chifix to save us." "'Ere, cheese it, you fool! We'll have somebody out next. Come away with yer. I've got some Bass in my place, if we git there."
"Well, if it was only the butcher I heard it from I wouldn't take much account of it, but Parker the baker 'as 'is doubts of them; so I 'eard the Grinsons' maid tell Ford when I was in 'is shop this very day. And I'm sure you've only to look at 'Orace's coat and 'at to see they must be in debt: the poor boy looks a reg'lar scarecrow. It all comes, my dear, of Reginald's going off and leaving them.
Hucks, returning to the counting-house; "and maybe you'll like to make his acquaintance, too, after what you've 'eard." "Before he comes I should like even better to hear your plan of campaign; for it seems that you have one." "I have; but it being what you might call a trifle 'igh-'anded, I wasn't proposin' to drag a lady into it leastways, not to make her an accomplice before the fac'."
He looked round at 'is wife, as though 'e expected she'd ask 'im not to go, but she took no notice, and he opened the door softly and went out, while old Burge, who 'ad come into the room and 'eard what he was saying, trotted off upstairs to pack 'is chest for 'im. In two hours 'e was back agin and more cheerful than he 'ad been since he 'ad come 'ome.
Cutts?" ses Bob, with a start. "That's me, my man," ses the keeper. "Why I thought you was. Is that Mr. Lewis? It can't be." "That's me," ses Keeper Lewis. "We both got well sudden-like, Bob Pretty, when we 'eard you was out. You ain't so sharp as you thought you was." Bob Pretty sat still, getting 'is breath back and doing a bit o' thinking at the same time.
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