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Updated: June 9, 2025
"And others will have it as the engagement's broken off by reason of your losin' all your money in Johnny Rogers's smash?" "And that," said Cai, "is just as true as the other. But who says that Rogers has gone smash?" "Everyone. I tackled Tabb upon the subject this mornin', and he couldn' deny it. The man's clean scat.
Cai halted and removed his hat; drew out a handkerchief and wiped his brow; wiped the lining of the hat; wiped his neck inside the collar. "There's another way of lookin' at it," he ventured. "Some might say as 'twas more tactful to let your feelin's cool off by degrees." "That's no way for me," said 'Bias positively. "Short and sharp's our motto." "'Tis the best, no doubt," Cai agreed.
Cai hesitated a moment. . . . After all, what proof had he to cite? A gentle pressure of the arm, for example, is not producible evidence. "Never you mind," said he sullenly. "You'll have proof enough when the time comes." 'Bias received this with a dry smile. "I thought as much. You haven't any, my sonny not so much as would cover a threepenny-bit." "You have, I suppose?" sneered Cai. "Heaps."
I wonder at the way you men I mean, I wonder how you do it turnin' money to such good account? 'Tis a gift I suppose; and you couldn' teach me, even if you would." Cai received the compliment with a somewhat guilty smile. "They tell me too," she continued, "that you are standin' for the Parish Council next month." "Who told you?" "Oh . . . a little bird!"
"I should be sorry to say how many hundredweights of butter I've made wi' that very hand or how many hundreds of persons have eaten it." Captain Cai dived his own hands into the hip-pockets of his new coat, aimlessly searching for pipe and tobacco-pouch; not that he would have ventured to smoke in her presence! but it gave his hands something to do.
"Time to be gettin' along to Committee," he said, and stepped to the doorway; but there he turned and faced about. "'Bias " "Eh?" "You don't really think as I chose th' other summer-house because it had a better view?" "Has it a better view?" asked 'Bias. "For fireworks, it seems," said Cai sadly.
She laid a finger on her lip. "Sh! I've got 'em." "Got what?" "Servants for 'ee. They're inside." She pointed back in to the passage mysteriously. "Who's this child?" demanded Captain 'Bias. "She's er a young friend o' mine " began Captain Cai. But Fancy interrupted him, dropping a slight curtsey, and addressing his friend straight. "My name's Fancy Tabb, sir.
"Better fit there was no need, and you'd played fair." "'Played fair'!" Cai flamed up at last "I don't take that from you, 'Bias Hunken, nor yet from any one! You fell into your own trap that's what happened to you. . . . 'Played fair'? I suppose you was playin' fair when you sneaked off unbeknowns and early to Rilla that mornin', after we'd agreed " "Well?" asked 'Bias, as Cai came to a halt.
"That's a pretty trifle," said Captain Tobias, possessing himself of the box and extracting a match from it. "Where did ye pick it up, now!" "From a a lady a Mrs Bosenna." Captain Cai recovered the box, pocketed it, and desperately changed the subject. "What's become of all the porters hereabouts?" he demanded. "Leavin' us alone an' all this luggage, like a wreck ashore!"
"She's bound to believe in anything that takes the children off her hands five days in the week." Cai puckered his brow. "But," said he, harking back, "I made inquiries, too, who paid for the piano, and was told the teachers had collected the money by goin' round with a subscription-list an gettin' up little entertainments. So it doesn't come out of the rates."
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