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Updated: May 25, 2025
I was, as I have said, under shell fire for a month in one place—night and day for a month—and never allowed out without a gasbag round my neck. I slept in a cellar there at night when I did sleep—only 700 yards from the Germans—and, as I have said before, it was cold. When the thaw set in, I put a couple of bricks down and put a box-lid on top, so that I could stand in a dry place.
"Let's see the fine clothes," said the first old lady to the apprentice boy, reaching out a hand and pulling at the corner of the box-lid. The youth was nothing loath to show, with professional pride, the quality of his burden, and so raised the lid. "Land save us! 'Tis gentry sure enough they are," cried the inquisitive one. "Do-a look in there!
And the wind had shifted! With the dark, as though the scene had been skilfully prepared by some infernal dramatist, just as the cover of night shut down tight and sealed, and suddenly, like a box-lid that had been upheld by the last rays of the setting sun, just as the great stars burst out above as if at the touch of an electric button, the wind shifted right round and blew due east.
Enos! said he, 'you've found me out; But you won't say nothin'. Gosh! you like it as well I do. Look 'ee there! breaking open the clay, from which arose 'a steam of rich distilled perfumes, 'and, I say, I've got the box-lid with that 'ere stuff in it, ho! ho! and the scamp roared again. "Out of a hole in the rock he brought salt and the end of a loaf, and between us we finished the fish.
Then she made her way at her usual pace, leaning heavily on the stout stick she was never without, toward the corner where the heap of lumber lay, on the left-hand side of what had once been the fireplace. Here she stooped, lifted a couple of bricks and a broken box-lid from the floor, and then easily raised the board on which they had stood, and beckoned to Dudley to come nearer.
But you won't say nothin'. Gosh! you like it as well I do. Look 'ee there! breaking open the clay, from which arose 'a steam of rich-distilled perfumes, 'and, I say, I've got the box-lid with that 'ere stuff in it, ho! ho! and the scamp roared again. "Out of a hole in the rock he brought salt and the end of a loaf, and between us we finished the fish.
And now he stood in his little bedroom, looking around it, almost with tears in his eyes, as he slowly dressed himself, and placed the remainder of his things in his box. He had just finished, and was sitting moodily upon the box-lid, when Harry and Philip entered the room, both looking as dull and miserable as himself.
Dost know any thing of it, my lad? 'Not I, truly, father, said the boy, 'I only know that I saw mother stick it in the box-lid last night, and put it upon the chair, which she set by the bedside, after you had put your clothes upon the back of it; I know I saw her put it there, so it must be there now, I fancy. 'Well, I cannot find it, replied the father; so we must e'en get up in the dark, for I am sure it must be time. The father and son then both dressed themselves, and the man, taking a shilling out of his pocket, laid it upon the chair, saying at the same time, 'There, Betty.
What would it matter he, one among millions, without wife or child? Yes, he would warn the engineer; and if they shot at him, perhaps the people on the train also had revolvers. The express must come soon it must be nearly half past ten. Mechanically, he read the name Swallowtown on the old box-lid. Not a sound from the interior of the station. Would they hit him or miss him when the train came?
It looked like a ridiculous freak in the midst of the wide desert, for nowhere, so far as the eye could reach, was it possible to discover a plausible excuse for the washed-out inscription "Swallowtown" on the old box-lid which was nailed up over the door.
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