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Joe wagged his head. "You've 'it it," he said. And, jerking his head back towards the room behind him, "Guv'nor's got it now." "What?" "The new disease." "What new disease?" "Wy, the Run-abaht-an-tell-'em-'ow-to-do-it." "Ah!" "'E's copped it fair. In bed." "You don't say!" "Not 'alf!" Joe sank his voice still lower. "Wot'll you bet me I don't ketch it soon?" The gardener uttered a low gurgle.
"So the guv'nor's been telling me, sir; but he says we're to leave nearly everything behind." "Yes, Sam; it will be safe enough here." "Well, it caps me, sir, that it do! Mr Landon took pretty well everything away that I thought we wanted, and now he says that we're to leave the miserable little lot he chose himself." "Yes," said Frank quietly.
Seeing nobody about except Mr. James, the head nodded, and presently followed by its body, stepped into the shop. "Where's the admiral, Foxy?" asked the caller. "Guv'nor's upstairs, Mr. Joseph, taking of his tea with Miss Iris," replied Mr. James, not at all offended by the allusion to his craftiness. Who should resemble the fox if not the second-hand bookseller?
The old "Peggy Stewart" house famous in history, though no longer occupied by her own family, still stood, a landmark, in the heart of the town and was pointed to with pride by all. "Dis sho' is de capital city ob de State, Ma'am. Yonder de guv'nor's mansion, jist over dar stan' de co't house, an' yonder de Cap'tal an' all de yether 'ministrashum buildin's, an' we'all's powerful proud ob 'em."
I've done wrong to let you ashore, perhaps perhaps I haven't; but, ashore or afloat, it's my business to see that the guv'nor's orders is carried out, and carried out they will be, one man or twenty agen 'em. Do you take a plain word or do you not, Mister Begg?"
The guv'nor's a sharp one, 'e is, but I was fly too; 'e always keeps me short, grumbles 'cause I won't let myself be exploited by the capitalists; but I did 'im this time. I 'ad a good old-fashioned nose round whilst the guv'nor left me in charge whilst 'e went for a drink, and I found ten bob the old girl 'ad 'idden away in a broken teapot, so I just pocketed 'em.
"Yes, my poor boy, you must be very poor, or you wouldn't bring yourself to steal." "No. I ain't poor; leastways, I have enough to eat, and I have a place to sleep." "Then why don't you earn your living by honest means?" "I can't; I must obey orders." "Whose orders?" "Why, the guv'nor's, to be sure." "Did he tell you to open that secretary?" "Yes." "Who is the guv'nor, as you call him?"
"I don't know anything about that, miss," the man said sullenly. "It is the guv'nor's orders, and he gave me pretty plainly to understand that he would want to know the reason why if I came back without you. Don't blame me." "I'm not blaming you at all," Vera said, coldly. "Nor am I going to stand here bandying words with you. I will just go to my room and put on a fur coat then I shall be ready."
We know th' kind o' ladies as comes a visitin' th' Guv'nor or the Captain 'ere a-nights " "Shut your trap, Ben, an' get to your 'osses, lady or no." "Lady ha, fine doin's fine doin's! Shameless 'ussies " "Close up, Ben, close up mum's the word hereabouts! The Guv'nor's got a quick eye for a fine young woman ah, an' so's you an' me, for that matter!
"Guv'nor's goin' on the loose wants the railway guide," he confided to a small friend in the printing interest whom he met as he was returning with the required volume. "Suppose you'll be sitten' upstairs now, then," remarked the black-fingered one with fine sarcasm.
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