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"Er on which errand, ma'am?" " Which?" echoed Mrs Bosenna, as if she did not understand. "Shall we take the more painful business first?" suggested Cai humbly. "If indeed it has not er wiped out the other. The damage done yesterday to your field, ma'am " "Have you brought Captain Hunken along with you?" asked Mrs Bosenna, interrupting him. "No, ma'am. He will be here in half an hour, sharp."
Captain Tobias Hunken sat patiently and ponderously upon a wooden sea-chest, alone on the platform, but stacked about by such a miscellany of luggage as gave him no slight resemblance to Crusoe on his raft.
Strollers-by and it had become an evening recreation in Troy to stroll from one end of the town to the other and mark how things were getting along for the 22nd found Captain Hocken and Captain Hunken ever at work but little disposed to chat; and as everyone knew of the old quarrel, so everyone noted the reconciliation and marvelled how it had come to pass. Even Mr Philp was baffled.
You may call it a a coincidence, 'Bias Hunken: but some would say as our minds worked on the same lines even when even when " Cai seemed to swallow something in his throat. "Anyhow, the money's gone, and we'll have to make it good." "Well, I should hope so!" "I'll see to that, 'Bias whatever happens." "So will I, o' course." 'Bias turned to refill his pipe. Cai was watching him narrowly.
"Ye-es I suppose so," admitted Fancy with a sigh. "But it makes things so awkward " She paused and knit her brows, as one considering a hard problem. "What's awkward?" Her response to this, delayed for a few seconds, was evasive when it came. "I used to think you an' Cap'n Hunken was such friends there was nothin' in the world you wouldn' do for him." "Ah!" Cai glanced at her with sharp suspicion.
He turned sternly upon Mrs Bowldler. But Mrs Bowldler, setting down a dish of poached eggs, had noted his glance and anticipated his question. "Which," said she, "I am obliged to you, sir, and prompter Captain Hunken could not have behaved.
"So," continued Mrs Bosenna hardily, "reckoning that the bed of the stream may have been choked by what the winter rains carry down, and this being our favourite place for the pans, under the cool of the bridge, down happens Dinah " "Excuse me, ma'am; but ain't it rather near the high road?" "It is, Captain Hunken: and I have often thought of it at nights.
"Cap'n Hunken!" she announced, and went to open the door. "Most like he wants to talk business with you same as Cap'n Hocken did this morning, and I'd better make myself scarce. That's the silly way they've taken to behave, 'stead of callin' together." "Ay, you're sharp, missy," said her master. "But 'twon't be the same arrand this time, as it happens: so you're wrong for once."
On a sudden, as he took up the fifth and, before opening it, glanced at the writing on the outside, his gaze stiffened. He sat upright. After a moment or two he unfolded the paper. His eyes sought and found two words the name "Tobias Hunken." He turned the papers over again. Still the name not his "Tobias Hunken!"
On my way here I ran against Cap'n Hunken, and of course he wanted to hear the latest of master said he was on his way to inquire. So I told him that matters was bad enough but while there was life there was hope the sort o' thing you have to say: and I went on that the business would be all in a mess for some time to come, and I hoped he'd got all his papers at home, which would save trouble.
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