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I finished the beer wot the actor 'ad left, and, arter telling the landlord I 'oped his eyesight 'ud be better in the morning, I went outside, and arter a careful look round walked back to the wharf. I pushed the wicket open a little way and peeped in. The actor was standing just by the fust crane talking to two of the hands off of the Saltram.
In the night after that you bore him there I prayed until the mid-hours, when all were sleeping fast and then I stole down in my bare feet, that none could hear me and at last I found my way in the black dark feeling the walls until I reached that farthest door in the stone and then I lighted my taper and oped it."
I 'oped at fust that it was a runaway-ring, but it kept on, and the longer it kept on, the worse it got. I went up that ladder agin and called out that I was coming, and then I went into the office and just slipped on my coat and trousers and went to the gate. "Wot d'you want?" I ses, opening the wicket three or four inches and looking out at a man wot was standing there.
"I s'pose he thinks 'imself safe writing letters thousands o' miles away." The last letter they 'ad came from Auckland, and said that he 'ad shipped on the Monarch, bound for the Albert Docks, and he 'oped soon to be at 'ome and managing the Blue Lion, same as in the old happy days afore he was fool enough to go to sea.
He said that he 'oped the cat 'ud live to be a hundred, and that 'e'd no more think of giving it poisoned meat than Henery Walker would of paying for 'is drink so long as 'e could get anybody else to do it for 'im. They 'ad bets up at this 'ere Cauliflower public-'ouse that evening as to 'ow long that cat 'ud live.
Next day, that there little thing looked soo maliceful when he come for the flax. An' when night came, she heerd that a-knockin' agin the winder panes. She oped the winder, an' that come right in on the ledge. That were grinnin' from are to are, an' Oo! tha's tail were twirlin' round so fast. "What's my name?" that says, as that gonned her the skeins.
I 'ad two 'arfpints with 'im at the Albion with his missis walking up and down outside and arter the second 'arf-pint he said he wanted to meet Dorothy and tell 'er that 'e was married, and that he 'oped she would meet some good man that was worthy of 'er. I had a week's peace while the ship was away, but she was hardly made fast afore I 'ad it all over agin and agin.
He to explore the place of pain was bold, Then soared to God, to teach our souls by song; The gates heaven oped to bear his feet along, Against his just desire his country rolled.
"The one thing I 'ave halways 'oped would 'appen!" he said impressively. Four days afterward, Brenton came home again, came straight from the burial service on the country hillside to take up his old life in the wifeless home. As a matter of course, his first evening he spent with Opdyke. Opdyke, looking for change in him, was not disappointed.
In a nice, qviet, lonely place say a vood?" "Yes, at a very lonely place called Oakshott's Barn." "Come, that's better and better!" nodded Mr. Shrig brightly, "that's werry pretty, that is things is rosier than I 'oped, but then, as I said afore, things is allus blackest afore the dawn. Oakshott's Barn, eh?
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