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Crossbourne has, in fact, become a very hive of industry; but, unhappily, too many of the cells of the hive are fuller of gall than of honey, for money is made fast and squandered faster: and what wonder, seeing that King Alcohol holds his court amongst the people day and night!
"I'll wish you good morning, sir," said Thomas Bradly to the doctor, as they entered the station yard. "A pleasant journey to you, sir; and there'll be many of us working-men as'll be very proud to see and hear you again in Crossbourne." "Farewell, my good friend," said the other. "I shall look forward with much pleasure to the fulfilment of my promise."
So she takes it with her in the dark, and drops it into William Foster's house, of all places in Crossbourne. "Just fancy any one leaving a Bible in that house ten months ago. But it came at the very nick of time.
I'm of opinion as it slipped off accidentally from the hand of the woman as she was dropping the Bible; and since it's clear she didn't want it to be known who she was, if she knows where she lost her ring she won't want to come and claim it." "And do you think," asked Foster, "that she is some one living in Crossbourne or the neighbourhood?" "Pretty certain," replied Thomas.
Of all the true friends of "Tommy Tracks" none valued and loved him more than the Reverend Ernest Maltby, vicar of Crossbourne. There is a peculiar attraction in such men to one another, which cements their friendship all the more strongly from the very dissimilarity of their social positions.
Well, we've had a grand night; and it's a sign, I believe, as we're going to have some rare bright sunshine on our temperance work." "I trust and believe so, indeed," rejoined Mr Maltby, and they parted. That meeting was never forgotten in Crossbourne, but was always spoken of as emphatically the great Crossbourne Temperance Meeting.
Well, I got a-gossiping with the landlady, and had another pint, and when I came out the bag were gone. I couldn't believe my eyes at first, for I've often left things on benches and steps outside the publics, and never knowed 'em touched afore this; for they're as honest a people in Crossbourne as you'll find anywhere. Howsomever, the bag were gone; there were no mistake about that.
Still, there were many self- imposed duties to which she devoted time and strength which could ill be spared, and in the performance of which she was wearing herself down; so the forced interruption of these by her visit to Crossbourne was looked upon by her husband with secret but deep satisfaction.
But what about him?" "Why, Thomas, I seed him in this town the day before yesterday." "Surely, Jim, you must be mistaken. He durstn't show his face in Crossbourne for the life of him."
Had it been hidden away somewhere in Crossbourne, there would have been a good hope of hunting it out; but now that it had been conveyed away to the great metropolis, and had been carried off from the railway terminus, further search and inquiry seemed absolutely useless.
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