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I've done it in my time, when perhaps I felt myself wrong. But I won't do it now when I'm right no, so help me, God, I won't." It was as if all restraints had been burst by the notion of such injustice. "Ah, well," said Ridgett, looking uncomfortable, "then I must withdraw the suggestion." Mavis Dale was trembling.
Barradine had always borne a good heart to her and hers. "Capital!" said Mr. Ridgett, visibly brightening. "A friend at court what's the proverb? It's not for me to let fall any remarks about wire-pulling. But naturally there's a freemasonry among the bigwigs. You take my tip, and use Mr. Barradine's interest for all it's worth."
Ridgett was a small sandy man of fifty, who obviously wished to make himself as agreeable as might be possible in rather difficult circumstances. During the afternoon he listened with an air of interested attention while Dale told him at considerable length the series of events that had led up to this crisis.
Then the excitement that had been smoldering burst forth with explosive force, shaking the village, the county, the universe. Dale, at handy grips with his superior officers, stood firm, declined to budge an inch from his position; he was right, and nothing would ever make him say he was wrong. "Ah, well," said Mr. Ridgett, "if that's the way you looked at it.
Down below in the sorting-room Dale greeted Mr. Ridgett very heartily. "Here I am. May I venture to come in a minute? I'm only a visitor till Monday, you know." And he told Ridgett how he had taken a liberty in returning before the stipulated date; but he had written to headquarters explaining the circumstances, and he had no doubt they would approve. "There's the funeral, you know.
When the station omnibus pulled up outside the post office, Mr. Ridgett caught sight of her, and gallantly came to assist her in alighting. Evidently he noticed nothing strange about her appearance. She at once announced the good news that Dale had not only been reinstated, but given a couple of weeks' holiday; and Ridgett, genuinely delighted, squeezed both her hands. "That's something like.
Ridgett chatted gaily together; and Dale observed, not without satisfaction, that the deputy patently admired Mavis. "Yes," he thought, "it must be an eye-opener for him or anybody else to come up those stairs and find a postmaster's wife with all the education and manners of a lady, and as pretty as a bunch of primroses into the bargain." And indeed little Mr.
"Yes?" "What I say is, little accidents happen to all of us but they blow over." Mavis Dale drew in her breath, and her eyebrows contracted. "Mr. Ridgett! The way you say that, shows you really think it's serious for him." "Oh, I don't in the least read it up as ruin and all the rest of it. It's just a check. In Mr. Dale's place, I should be philosophical.
They say you are unquestionably an efficient servant, but that your efficiency at any rate, in the position you have held of late has been marred by what seem to be faults of temperament. They believe and we believe that you honestly try to do your best; but, well, you do not succeed." "I'd be glad to know where I've failed, sir. Mr. Ridgett, he said he found everything in apple-pie order.
When I get back here again, I shall be like the monkey best part up the palm-tree, and nothing dangerous between him and the nuts." All that day Dale was busy installing the deputy. "You find us fairly in order," he said, with a pride that did not pretend to conceal itself. "Nothing you wouldn't call shipshape?" "Apple-pie order," said Mr. Ridgett. "Absolutely O.K." Mr.
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