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You mustn't think but I'm sorry enough "'To turn me out? I thank you, Mr. Hosking; but you are doing the right thing. "Since Mrs. Carkeek was to stay, the arrangement lacked nothing of absolute perfection except, perhaps, that it found no room for me. "'She Margaret-will be happy, I said; 'with her cousins, you know. "'Oh yes, miss, she will be happy, sure enough, Mrs. Carkeek agreed.
And after a while I picked up all my courage, so to say, between my teeth, and with a little sob thrust out my hand and did it. Then I fled. "The dawn was close upon me: and as soon as the sky reddened I took my bath, dressed and went downstairs. And there at the pantry door I found Mrs. Carkeek, also dressed, with my candlestick in her hand. "'Ah! said I, 'you picked it up. "Our eyes met.
Carkeek as we embraced: and this was as close to familiarity as she allowed herself to go in the whole course of my acquaintance with her. "I spent three years at Tresillack, and all that while Mrs. Carkeek lived with me and shared the secret. Few women, I dare to say, were ever so completely wrapped around with love as we were during those three years.
'There's always been trouble with servants, and maids' tongues will be runnin'. But Mary Carkeek lives up there alone, and she seems comfortable enough. "We walked on. By-and-by he pointed with his stick. 'It don't look like a place for ghosts, now, do it? "Certainly it did not.
"'But perhaps she never showed herself when these awful people were here, but took to flight until they left. "'You didn't never know her, miss. The brave she was! She'd have stood up to lions. She've been here all the while: and only to think what her innocent eyes and ears must have took in! There was another couple Mrs. Carkeek sunk her voice.
"'Those hands why, how could I mistake, that used to be her nurse? "'But why does she wash them? "'Well, miss, being always a dainty child and the house-work, you see "I took a long breath. 'Do you mean to tell me that all this tidying and dusting I broke off. 'Is it she who has been taking this care of me? "Mrs. Carkeek met my look steadily. "'Who else, miss? "'Poor little soul!
'But servants are all the same, I told myself. 'I must take Mrs. Carkeek as she is; and, after all, she is a treasure. "On the second night after this, and between eleven and twelve o'clock, I was lying in bed and reading myself sleepy over a novel of Lord Lytton's, when a small sound disturbed me. I listened. The sound was clearly that of water trickling; and I set it down to rain.
They put it down to the piskies; but we know better, miss, and now we've got the secret between us we can lie easy in our beds, and if we hear anything, say "God bless the child!" and go to sleep. "'Mrs. Carkeek, said I, 'there's only one condition I have to make. "'What's that? "'Why, that you let me kiss you. "'Oh, you dear! said Mrs.
Carkeek were in the pantry I might happen to give her a severe fright. "I pushed the door open briskly. Mrs. Carkeek was not there. But something was there, by the porcelain basin something which might have sent me scurrying upstairs two steps at a time, but which as a matter of fact held me to the spot. My heart seemed to stand still so still!
Carkeek had to wash up glass ware and crockery, and no doubt Mrs. Carkeek would complain of any failure in the water supply. I chose a china bowl and went to fill it at the tap. Again the water would not run. "I called Mrs. Carkeek. 'What is wrong with this tap? I asked. 'The rest of the house is well enough supplied. "'I don't know, miss. I never use it.
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