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He has seen the death of old Europe and the birth-throes of the new. Go to him, and question him; for his senses are quick as ever; and just now the old man seems uneasy. He is peering with rheumy eyes through the groups, and seems listening for a well-known voice. "There 'a be again! Why don't 'a come, then?" "Quiet, gramfer, and don't trouble his worship."
The lugger was a beautiful boat, according to the idea of beauty that then prevailed, having been constructed by Mr George Heard familiarly known as Gramfer Heard shipbuilder of Devonport, and Dick Chichester's master, as a kind of yacht, for his own especial use and enjoyment.
The old man's eyes lighted at once, and he stopped mumbling his sugar. "Seed mun? Iss, I reckon. I was with Captain Will when he went to meet the Frenchman there to Calais at the Field, the Field " "The Field of the Cloth of Gold, gramfer," suggested the dame. "That's it. Seed mun? Iss, fegs. Oh, he was a king! Oh, to hear mun swear if he was merry, oh, 'tas royal! Seed mun? Iss, fegs!
"Here an hour, and never speak to poor old Martin! I say, sir" and the old man feebly plucks Amyas's cloak as he passes. "I say, captain, do 'e tell young master old Martin's looking for him." "Marcy, gramfer, where's your manners? Don't be vexed, sir, he'm a'most a babe, and tejous at times, mortal."
Are you feeling better, `gramfer'? And what were the Indians going to do to you?" This in English. The Indian looked up in Stukely's face and spoke for nearly a minute; and when he had finished Stukely was again, to his own and Dick's amazement, able to reply. "We are getting on," Phil explained.
"You've been away a long time," remarked Dick; "gramfer here and I were seriously discussing the desirability of starting out to look for you. Have you found the game scarce?" "Game of the kind that I was after, yes; but game of a very different sort, no," answered Stukely. "The fact is, Dick," he continued, "that I have had quite an interesting afternoon.
"I'm afraid gramfer, here, is rather badly hurt," gasped Phil, as he and Dick lifted the insensible form of the Peruvian to the top of the low bank. "Evidently he has been dashed against a rock and stunned, if not worse," he continued, pointing to a very ugly jagged wound in the right temple, from which the blood was welling pretty freely. "I noticed, as I drove past, that you had saved the canoe.
And I've seed mun do what few has; I've seed mun christle like any child." "What cry?" said Amyas. "I shouldn't have thought there was much cry in him." "You think what you like " "Gramfer, gramfer, don't you be rude, now "Let him go on," said Amyas. "I seed mun christle; and, oh dear, how he did put hands on mun's face; and 'Oh, my gentlemen, says he, 'my gentlemen!
Since then `gramfer' Vilcamapata has been a wanderer and a fugitive, always fleeing from the Spaniards, who, it appears, are doing their utmost to extirpate the Peruvians under the pretence of converting or trying to convert them to the Christian faith.
Gramfer is to Tavistock to-night; and he told me this morning that I might use the lugger whenever I pleased, if he did not want her himself. We'll have something like a sail to-night, Phil, for there is enough wind blowing to just suit the lugger, while it and the sea would be rather too much for our own boat."
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