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Updated: June 16, 2025
Trenoweth, and I want you." There was a low cursing, a long pause broken by a muttered dispute upstairs, and then the street door opened and Bagnell appeared with a lantern. "Bagnell, I want my boat." "To-night, sir? And at this hour?" "Yes, to-night. I want it particularly." "But it is put away behind a dozen others, and can't be got." "Never mind.
Stumbling through dark and tortuous streets where the moon's frosty brilliance was almost completely hidden, I came at last to the waterman's door and knocked. He was in bed and for some time my summons was in vain. At last I heard a sound in the room above, the window was let down and a sulky voice said, "Who's there?" "Is that you, Bagnell?" I answered. "Come down. It is I, Mr.
I will help if you want assistance, but I must have it." Bagnell looked at me for a minute and I could see that he was cursing under his breath. "Is it serious, sir? You're not " "I am not drunk, if that is what you mean, but perfectly serious, and I must have my boat." "Won't another do as well?" "No, it will not." I felt in my pockets and found two sovereigns and a few shillings.
Her low voice positively trembled with concentrated hate. "Stay," she said, "have you money?" I suddenly remembered that I had given all the money on me to Bagnell for getting out my boat, and told her so. At the same moment, too, I thought upon the tin box still lying under the boat's stern. I stepped aft and pulled it out. "Here is money," she said; "money that I was to have given him.
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