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It was painful to stand near the stable-door, and hear the various complaints against the keepers when a horse was taken out for use. "This horse has not had proper attention.
Rose; "I ain't going to damage my property like that. I can lock my stable-door and unlock it when I like; if people get in there as have no business there, it's their look-out." "That's law," said Mr. Hogg; "I'll eat my hat if it ain't." "Do you mean to tell me you've really lost the key?" demanded Mr. Quince, eyeing the farmer sternly. "Seems like it," said Mr. Rose.
At that early hour the streets had few occupants besides the market people, who walked briskly along, balancing their vegetable stores upon their heads, and chattering noisely in the Basque tongue; at a stable-door some Andalusian dragoons groomed their horses, gaily singing in chorus one of the lively seguidillas of their native province; here and there a 'prentice boy, yawning and sleepy-eyed, removed the shutters from his master's shop.
He turned back with me; but before we reached the place, the dark stranger I had seen before beckoned from a back window. "Ha! an old and worthy customer wants me." Placing his crooked finger in his mouth. he gave a loud and piercing whistle. The quondam whipper appeared at a stable-door with a horse-brush in his hand. "Pat, show his honor that born beauty I killed for him this morning."
He only knows that the mare was out." "But I'm going to talk to him." "May I come in, too? I'll not interrupt. I've just fifteen minutes to spare." "You can do as you please. I've nothing to hide from you, at any rate." Which wasn't quite true; but Sweetwater wasn't a stickler for truth, except in the statements he gave his superiors. Hexford threw open the stable-door, and they both walked in.
From behind the pollard her cat jumped on to the path: it had come to the field to meet her and, purring cosily, was now arching its back and loitering between Zalia's legs until she stroked it; then it ran home before her with great bounds. The goat, hearing steps approach, put its head over the stable-door and began to bleat.
Moffat, quite aware of the effect which was being produced on every side, but equally careful to make no show of it, put in a commonplace question at this point, possibly to rouse the witness from her own abstraction, possibly to restore the judicial tone of the inquiry. "How did you leave the stable-door?" "Open." "Can you tell us what time it was when you started?" "No. I did not look.
"The person driving this horse wore a hat, identified as an old one of yours, which hat was afterwards found at your house on a remote peg in a seldom-used closet. If you were not this person, how can you explain the use of your horse, the use of your clothes, the locking of the stable-door which you declare yourself to have left open and the hanging up of the key on its own nail?"
By dint of coaxing I had got the good old ship so as to know every inch of the road on the northern passage, and now I shall be obliged to wheedle her along on a new route, like a shy horse getting through a new stable-door. One might as well think of driving a pig from his sty, as to get a ship out of her track." "We trust to you to do all this and much more at need.
In fact, words failing, Gardener took a good stick and laid it about Bill's shoulders, saying he would either do this, or tell the mistress of him, and how he had left the stable-door open all night, and some bad fellow had stolen Jess, and galloped her all across the country, till, if she hadn't been the cleverest pony in the world, she never could have got back again.
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