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I could hear the dogs barking away among the hills, and the rustle of the night-folks among the dry heather as I cautiously rounded the "but and ben," and there at the door were the two horses that had passed me. Quietly I crawled into a clump of heather and lay a-watching, and turned in my mind everything I might be a witness to, and found no answer.
"Hum-m! if 'tweren't for that, I could maist fling out an' dance the 'Rigs o' Barley' a-watching o' those happy lasses," he whimsically confessed in the ear of a king fern. "I could, for sure, same's we used to dance it in the glen around a bonfire!"
We must keep that tiger a-watching of us over the bow, whilst you run below and shut the hatch. By lifting the lid you'll be able to shoot him through the skylight. Come you down now as far as you durst whilst we fixes the attention of the brute upon ourselves." I at once dropped into the rigging, where I stretched and played my legs a bit.
And, indeed, so it proved; what with Miss Blake, who, of course, required frequent advances to sustain her strength during the approaching ordeal; what with policemen, who could not "undertake to be always a-watching River Hall"; what with watchmen, who kept their vigils in the nearest public-house as long as it was open, and then peacefully returned home to sleep; what with possible tenants, who came to us imagining the place was to let, and whom we referred to Colonel Morris, who dismissed them, each and all, with a tale which disenchanted them with the "desirable residence" it was all exceeding hard upon Mr.
He might have been some one's prodigal son, Maxwell." "He was just a poacher, my dear, and I think I know the chap. He's staying at the Blue Dragon, and has been a-watching this place for some time." "Perhaps he is one of God's prodigal sons," said Milly softly, "like Jack was." To this Maxwell made no reply, but when he set her down in the brightly-lighted hall a little later, he said,
"Where were you?" "In the shrubbery, raking up the dead leaves as he told me to the night afore, and forgotten as I was there so near." "And you were busy raking the leaves?" said Grange. "Nay, I warn't; I was a-watching on him, and left off, for I didn't see what he wanted there." "No, no, it's impossible; he would have been so careful," said Grange hurriedly.
"Oh, it wasn't anything much," he says. "I seen him looking a little excited when he found Uncle Silas was actually fixing to hang himself for a murder that warn't ever done; and he got more and more nervous and worried, I a-watching him sharp but not seeming to look at him and all of a sudden his hands begun to work and fidget, and pretty soon his left crept up and HIS FINGER DRAWED A CROSS ON HIS CHEEK, and then I HAD him!"
"That's right, miss; now my mind's easy. I have got your promise, miss, and I'll keep the little birds a-watching to find out if ever you go near to breathing it. There's a dark cellar, too, most handy for them children who turn out to be Dove's enemies, and you know where the people who tell lies go to. Now, good-bye, miss eat up your sweeties."
"Mis'ess has been to the doctor with her to-day, and she looked very glum when she came out again. I was a-watching of them to see what doctor had said." "And didn't Miss look glum too?" asked his mother. "Not half as glum as Mis'ess," returned the coachman. "You see " But he lowered his voice, and Diamond could not make out more than a word here and there.
"I'm a-going somewheres." "Where is he going?" I asked. "Somewheres," repeated the boy in a louder tone. "I have been moved on, and moved on, more nor ever I was afore, since the t'other one give me the sov'ring. Mrs. Snagsby, she's always a- watching, and a-driving of me what have I done to her? and they're all a-watching and a-driving of me.
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