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"She's a very nice young lady," said the mortified Mr. Green; "always a pleasant smile for everybody." "He'll come aboard 'ere as safe as heggs is heggs," said Joe, despondently. "Wot's to be done?" He folded his arms on the side and stood ruefully watching the stairs.
Helen felt a woman's instinctive liking for him before she had even heard him speak. "Have you thought us long, Helen?" her father exclaimed anxiously. "We haven't seen anything of the scoundrel, but Heggs was fortunate enough to meet Sir Allan Beaumerville on the moor, and he very kindly offered to return." Sir Allan was on his knees by the body before Mr. Thurwell had finished his sentence.
Mr. Thurwell drew a few steps backward, and his keen gray eyes swept the open country round. "There was no one in sight when we got here; but the blackguard can't be far away!" he said. "Heggs, and you, Smith, and you, Cook, go through the spinney as fast as you can, one in the middle and one on each side, mind! I will go up Falcon's Hill and look round.
"It's nothing," he answered with a little laugh, in which all the elements of mirth were lacking, "nothing at all! A note from Heggs, my head-keeper about some poachers. Confound the fellow!" Andrew's hand was suddenly upon the sideboard, travelling furtively across its shining surface. Duncombe watched it with a curious sense of fascination. He felt altogether powerless to interfere.
Buy good but cheap chunks of beef an' mutton an' wegetables, an' make stews an' meat pies an' rich soups, an' say yer prayers hagainst hall trashy things as hain't vorth the trouble of heatin'. Heggs, too, ven ther're plenty, hare fust-rate, an' milk is better than so much tea an' coffee, heven if the milkman do spill it in the brook an' pick it hout hagain before we get it.
"Touched in her brain, I doubt," thought Dinah. "Coot ale!" exclaimed Betty Williams "Coot heggs and pacon." "Does a lady of the name of Araminta Miss Hodges, I mean lodge here?" said Miss Warwick. "Friend, I do not let lodgings; and I know of no such person as Miss Hodges."
Feeling in the depth of her shawl she produced a capacious flask and a bundle of cigars. "'Ere, boys," she said, "let's talk 'am and heggs. 'Ere's a drop of the best and five bob's worth of chimney afire, stun me mother if there ain't. I'm sick of talkin' and so's 'the Panerawma. Light up yer sherbooks and think as you're in Buckingem Peliss. There ain't no 'arm thinkin' anyways."
"What sort of sport are you having there?" "Very fair," I answered. "Heggs sends you the figures every day, I suppose?" "Yes!" Ralph answered. "You seem to have done very well at the birds. Till to-morrow, Austen!" "Till to-morrow," I replied. "Good night, old chap!" "Goodnight!" I put down the receiver and went back to my dinner more than ever puzzled.
Heggs, the junior keeper, an hour or so later, went over the gun rack once more, tapped the empty cases, and turned towards Middleton, who was sitting in a chair before the fire, smoking his pipe. "I can't find master's number two gun, Mr. Middleton," he announced. "That's missing." "Look again, lad," the old keeper directed, removing the pipe from his mouth.
The time before I slept beside a haystack, and when I awoke at sunrise I felt something warm and soft against my face like feathers. It was feathers. There was a 'en's nest two inches from my nose, and six nice eggs in it all ready for my birthday breakfast. I only ate four of them. You should never take all the heggs out of a nest." He looked round at the group and smiled.
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