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"Oh, I'll go with pleasure!" said Mr. Edwards. "If you can stand the cold, I can, I dessay. Wait till I get my 'at and hovercoat I won't be a minute." Miss Silver waited. Mr. Edwards reappeared in a twinkling. "'Adn't I better fetch a lantern?" he suggested. "It will be himpossible to see it, heven if it should be there." "No," said Sybilla.
"No," replied Mr Millons, shading his eyes with his hands, and gazing at the object in question, "it's himpossible. I searched every bit o' the bank for a plank before we came hoff, an' couldn't find a morsel as big as my 'and. W'at say you, doctor?" "I think with you," answered Dr Hopley; "but here's the telescope, which will soon settle the question."
The only thing to be done was to wait and watch. If we could only get hold of something tangible, then we might hope to tell all that we knew, without being made into laughing-stocks. I came out from my think, abruptly. Stubbins was speaking again. He was arguing the matter with one of the other men. "You see, with there bein' no wind, scarcely, ther thing's himpossible, an' yet "
Himpossible!" gasped Blake, "And your papa a juke!" At sight of Griffith's upcurving eyebrows, Lord James smiled resignedly and explained: "Quite true as to His Grace, y'know. But I assure you that even in England I am legally only a commoner. It's only by courtesy custom, you know that I'm given my father's second title." "That's all right, Mr. Scarbridge," assured Griffith, in turn.
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