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Mrs. Benn, that uncompromising "Son of Temperance," had come over herself to explain matters to Jimmy's sister, and had taken the opportunity to enlarge on the number of bottles she had found in her lodger's room, omitting to state, however, that these had included the best part of a dozen of Bass, which, possibly because she hated liquor so much, she had promptly sold to her next-door neighbour at a halfpenny a bottle below the retail price.
"It's a bit creepy, all alone." "I'm all right," said Mrs. Waters. "I keep fancying there's something dodging behind them currant bushes," pursued the unfortunate Mr. Benn, hoarsely. "How you can stay there alone I can't think. I thought I saw something looking over your shoulder just now. Fancy if it came creeping up behind and caught hold of you! The widow gave a sudden faint scream.
There flashed into his mind that this stranger in Eastern garb was Ebn Ezra Bey, the old friend of Benn Claridge, of whom his uncle had spoken and written so much. The same instinct drew Ebn Ezra Bey to him he saw the uncle's look in the nephew's face. In a breathless stillness the Oriental said in perfect English, with a voice monotonously musical: "I came to thy house and found thee not.
He had, however, gone to Heddington to learn further news of the massacre. He was thinking of his Uncle Benn- all else could wait. His anxiety was infinitely greater than that of Luke Claridge, for his mind had been disturbed by frequent premonitions; and those sudden calls in his sleep-his uncle's voice ever seemed to be waking him at night.
Gang benn to the chop and get a cnottie o' reid candy-sugar, and gie her that the neist time ye see her her lane. The likes o' her kens what that means. And gin she tak's 't frae ye, ye may hae the run o' the drawer. It's worth while, ye ken. Them 'at winna saw winna reap." From that moment she was on her guard. Nor did she give the youth a chance of putting his father's advice into operation.
I hae naething mair upo' my conscience nor I can bide i' the deidest o' the nicht." "Then you think ghosts come of a bad conscience? A kind of moral delirium tremens eh?" "I dinna ken, my lord; but that's the only kin' o' ghaist I wad be fleyed at at least 'at I wad rin frae. I wad a heap raither hae a ghaist i' my hoose nor ane far'er benn.
I'll 'tend the office, make the beds, and keep the fires goin'. You you " He gazed at the Cap'n, faltering in his speech and fingering his nose apprehensively. "Well, me what?" snapped the ex-master of the Jefferson P. Benn. But his sparkling eyes showed that he realized what was coming. "You've allus been braggin'," gulped Hiram, "what a dabster you was at cookin', havin' been to sea and "
"Last night the Prince Pasha called me to his Council, made me adviser, confidant, as one who has the ear of his captain after he had come to terms with me upon that which Uncle Benn left of land and gold. Think not that he tempted me.
Benn says, has gathered his experience in a college quadrangle or a cathedral close, and knows little enough about his own country, next to nothing about what morality was in the Middle Ages, and nothing at all about what it still is in many parts of Europe.
'Dinna be ill-tongued, Robert, or I'll jist gang benn the hoose to the mistress. 'Betty, wha began wi' bein' ill-tongued? Gin ye tell my grandmither that I gaed oot the nicht, I'll gang to the schuilmaister o' Muckledrum, and get a sicht o' the kirstenin' buik; an' gin yer name binna there, I'll tell ilkabody I meet 'at oor Betty was never kirstened; and that'll be a sair affront, Betty.
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