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They all looked awfully disappointed when it was only Greg, with the black necktie still around his head and Aunt's hatpin held very far away from him so that it wouldn't hurt him if he fell down. He tumbled on board just as the nice brown Portuguese man who works the rattley chain thing at the landings was pushing the collapsible gate shut, and Greg gasped: "I brought the moidores too!"
Thinks I, 'tis what their Worships will have been keepin' for private use, between whiles. Or elst " "Or else?" "Or else maybe we've tapped a private cellar." Lord Rattley slapped his thigh. "A cache, by Jove! Old Squire Nicholas I remember, as a boy, hearing it whispered he was hand-in-glove with the Free Trade." The prisoner touched his hat humbly.
Of a coachman I once had called Oke William Oke, continued Lord Rattley imperturably. 'Drunken little sot he was, but understood horses. One night I had out the brougham and drove into Bodmin to mess with the Militia. The old Royal Cornwall Rangers messed at the hotel in those days, in the long room they used for Assemblies.
Picking himself up, digging his heels into the moraine of plaster, and brushing the grit from his eyes, he had the pleasure of recognising Lord Rattley, the Parson, Mr. Batty, as they scrambled forth successively, black with dust but unhurt, save that the Parson had received a slight scalp-wound. Then Mr.
What the devil of a smell of brandy!" observed Lord Rattley, mopping his brow in the intervals of helping to hoist the rescued ones up the moraine.
Four of our fellow-magistrates were already gathered in the little room at the rear of the court-house: of whom the first to greet our Chairman was Lord Rattley. Lord Rattley, a peer with very little money and a somewhat indecorous past, rarely honours the Tregantick bench by attending sessions; but for once he was here, and at once started to banter Sir Felix on his unpunctuality.
"This bein' a magistrates' matter, m' lord, an' me not wishin' to interfere " "Quite so." Lord Rattley felt in his pockets. "You have done us a considerable service, my man, and er that bein' so " "Forty shillin' it was. He's cheap at it" with a nod towards the Admiral. "A real true-blue old English gentleman! You can always tell by their conversations." "The fine shall be paid."
"You, Edwards if that's your real name " "It'll do for this job," put in the prisoner. "Very well. Have you anything to say?" The prisoner ran his eye along the array of Justices. "Seems a lot o' dogs for one bone!" The Admiral stiffened with wrath, and the crimson of his face deepened as Lord Rattley threw himself back in his chair, laughing. "Forty shillings, or a month!" "Oh, come I say!"
Lord Rattley, whose language is younger than his years, declared afterwards between explosions of indecent mirth that we left the floor to the old man, and he waltzed. 'Supplementary cases, y'r Worship, murmured the Clerk. 'If I may remind paper handed to y'r Worship 'Eh? Yes, to be sure
Then he put them out and fumbled with his papers. Lord Rattley obligingly pushed forward his copy of the list. 'Shall I have the defendants brought into Court at once? asked the Superintendent. 'The constables tell me that they are er mostly, by this time, in a condition to understand, for all practical purposes, the meaning of an oath. Sir Felix has as I have hinted his foibles.
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