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"You be'ant Muster Trevelyan, be you?" said Mrs. Crocket, looking at him very hard. "No, I'm not Mr. Trevelyan." "Nor yet 'the Colonel' they doo be talking about?" "Well, yes, I am a colonel. I don't know why anybody should talk about me. I'll just step out now, however, and see my friends." "It's madam's lover," said Mrs. Crocket to herself, "as sure as eggs is eggs."
"Good heavens! but who are those?" said Walter, pointing to two shadowy and gigantic figures which also faced them. "O, who are those?" he asked wildly, and in such alarm that if the shepherd had not seized him firmly he must have fallen. "There, there don't be frighted," said Giles; "those be'ant no ghosts, but they be just our own shadows on the mist.
On the top of the pillars were crumbled stone shields, seemingly held in place by a lion on each pillar. "Is this Holmwood House?" asked Morris of the old and grey man who came out of the porter's lodge. "Yes, sir, it be," replied the man. "Are visitors permitted to see the house and the grounds?" "No, they be'ant," was the answer.
Crocket's ostler, "if there be'ant the chap as was here yesterday when I was a starting, and I zeed 'un in Lezbro' street thick very morning." "He be'ant arter no good, that 'un," said the ostler. After that a close watch was kept upon the watcher. In the meantime, Colonel Osborne had ordered his breakfast at the Stag and Antlers, and had asked questions as to the position of the Clock House.
"Oh, Mrs. ," said Herbert, "I beg your pardon, but might I ask your name?" "No offence, sir, none in life. My name's Whereas. Martha Whereas, and 'as been now for five-and-twenty year. There be'ant many of the gen'lemen about the courts here as don't know some'at of me. And I knew some'at of them too, before they carried their wigs so grandly.
"Thee bi'st coom over t' Razor along Devil's Way," said he in amazement; "then thee bi'st just the plookiest young chap I've seen for many a day." "We must get back over it, too, to reach them," said Walter. "O ay; I be'ant afear'd of t' Razor; I've crossed him many a time, and I'll take a bit rope over and help they other chaps. We'll take a lantern, too.
"Time was I've zeed vifteen pair o' 'osses go out of this 'ere yard in vour-and-twenty hour; and now there be'ant vifteen, no, not ten, in vour-and-twenty days! There was the duik not this 'un; he be'ant no gude; but this 'un's vather why, when he'd come down the road, the cattle did be a-going, vour days an eend.
Fishing isn't as good as it used to be round here, and swiles well, there be'ant one year in a dozen when they comes in any quantity. I reckon I'll rig t' Saucy Lass for a longer trip t' year, and see what luck'll bring lower down t' Labrador."
It's a queer thing, but I've seen it often and often on these hills, and some scholards have told me as how that kind of thing be'ant uncommon on mountains." "What a goose I was to be so horribly frightened," said Walter; "but I didn't know that there were any spectres of that sort on Appenfell. All right, Giles; go on."
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