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I crawled along it as fast as I could I was about woozy, anyway and by and by I 'eard the shots go off be'ind me. But there was n't any use in going back the tunnel was caved in. So I kept on. "I don't know 'ow long I went or where I went at. It was all dark and I was about knocked out. After while, I ran into a stream of water that came out of the inside of the 'ill somewhere, and I took a drink.
He came in a mysterious sort o' way that I didn't like: looking be'ind 'im as though he was afraid of being follered, and speaking in a whisper as if 'e was afraid of being heard. He wasn't a man I liked, and I was glad that the watch and chain was stowed safe away in my trowsis-pocket. "I've 'ad a shock, watchman," he ses. "Oh!" I ses.
'I didn't see yer, Mr. Blakeston, she said, as he came up to her. 'Didn't yer? Well, I knew yer would; an' I was witin' for yer ter look up. I see yer before ter-day. 'Na, when? 'I passed be'ind yer as you an' thet other girl was lookin' at the advertisement of thet ply. 'I never see yer. 'Na, I know yer didn't. I 'ear yer say, you says: "I should like to see thet." 'Yus, an' I should too.
Perhaps the cry was drowned in the dog's ecstatic barking. "G'way!" He advanced unsteadily towards the edge of the basin, not perceiving, or at any rate not recognising the children, though close to them. "Let my cap be'ind," he grumbled; "elst they stole it." He drew himself up at the water's edge, a dozen yards or so wide of the Severn Belle's stern. "Oh, Bill!"
"Then nobody has lived here of late?" "Bless 'ee no nor wouldn't, no, not if ye paid 'em tu. Nobody's come a-nigh the place, you may say, since 't were built by the wanderin' man. Lived 'ere all alone, 'e did killed 'isself 'ere likewise." "Killed himself!" said I. "Ah ! 'ung 'isself be'ind th' door yonder, sixty an' six year ago come August, an' 't were me as found 'im.
"We've no books, sir, and we never 'ardly see a paper now. All we 'ave in the 'ouse is a Bible and two copies of Lillywhite's cricket annual as my 'usband left be'ind." Challis smiled. "Has he read those?" he asked. "The Bible 'e 'as, I believe," replied Mrs. Stott. It was a conversation curious in its impersonality.
"Perhaps it ayn't syfe to give it!" Her voice floated back now from the threshold; predominated for a moment later in one of the corners of the bar leading to the street: "Oi soi, you cawn't go in for a 'arf of bitters without a bloomin' graveyard mist comin' up be'ind yer back!"
"Aye, sir, there be a great, sooty black man for one, a hugeous niggermoor with devil's eyes as roll an' teeth like a dog there's 'im! An' there's three or four desp'rit-seemin' coves as looks like prize fighters though they ain't often seed abroad an' then mostly drivin' be'ind fast 'orses, sir coach, sir." "And what of the owner of the place, Mr. Trenchard, I think his name is?"
Three of them closed in on me, sir, and harskin' your pardon, sir, I was whippin' hof 'em to standstill when one of them tripped me from be'ind, sir, " "Stand up, Henry," said Varney, rather agitated, "like the man you are." Henry stood up, with a jerky "Thank you, sir," striving with momentary ill-success to get a lackey's mask back upon that quivering face.
Again Harry raised his pick and swung it with force. Fairchild joined him. A moment more and they were staring at a hole which led to darkness, and there was joy in Harry's voice as he made a momentary survey. "It's fairly dry be'ind there," he announced. "Otherwise we 'd have been scrambling around in water up to our necks. We 're lucky there, any'ow."
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