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Uncle Chirgwin also appeared, and said some hard things in a sleepy voice, while Tom drank cider and ate a big slice of bread and bacon. "A terrible Old Testament man, your faither, sure 'nough," said Uncle Chirgwin. "Be you gwaine to stop the night 'long o' us or no?" "Not me! I got to be in the bwoat 'fore half-past five to-morrer marnin'."
So ye mind, Mysie, hoo Tam Graham's lass aye clashed on the rest o' us on the pit-head? She's just like her faither, ay ready to do onything agin the rest, if it would gi'e her a wee bit favor." "Ay, fine I mind o' it, Rob," Mysie replied eagerly. "Do ye mind the day she was goin' to tell aboot you takin' hame the bit auld stick for firewood?
Tom, dashed by these base details, answered seaman fashion: "Ay, ay, faither." Then they all tramped home, and the boy enjoyed the glories of a late supper, though he was half asleep before he had finished it. By half-past five o'clock, Mr. Tregenza's black lugger was off again in a gray dawn all tangled with gold on the eastern horizon.
A girl of fourteen came in answer to his knock, for Walker was a widower, his wife having died shortly after the birth of their only child. "Is yer faither in?" enquired Geordie quietly, hardly able to control the raging anger in his heart. "No, he's no' in," replied the girl. "Oh, is that you, Geordie?" she asked, recognizing him in the darkness.
Amongst other hints o' this, was Mrs. Robertson's scarcely speakin three words to me a' the time I sat wi' her, and no makin ony offer o' the sma'est refreshment. Her behaviour to me was a'thegither exceedinly strange and mysterious; but what struck me as maist singular, was her aye speakin o' my faither wi' a compassionatin air.
Ah've kenned weel they've been hatchin' plans this while back an' that oor Andra was in it, aye, an' Donal' afore he gaed away, but Ah jist gave no heed to their bit noise, an' Andra kenned his faither better than to come till him wi' his norms till yon bit slippery, feather-heided crater cam' till me this mornin'." "An' would he be asking you if they could get one?" "Askin' me!
"Well, I'll slip back long, Joan; an' if I be a Nachur's cheel, I be; but I guess I'll keep it a secret. If I tawld faither as I dedn' b'lieve in no auld devil, I guess he'd hurry me into next world so's I might see for myself theer was wan." They walked a little way together. Then Tom grew frightened and stopped his companion.
Havin faulded this letter, which I did wi' a tremblin hand and palpitatin heart, I clapt it into my pocket-book, whar it lay for three days, for want o' courage to dispatch it, and, in some sort, for want o' opportunity too; for if I sent it by the post, there was a danger o't fa'in into the hands o' Lizzy's faither Lizzy Barton bein the name o' my enthraller; and there was naebody else that I could think o' employin in the business.
Where did these things come from?" "Drift, faither. Uncle Chirgwin bid me bring 'em with his respects." "Did you tell en 'twas breakin' the commandments?" "No, faither." "Why didn't 'e? You knawed it yourself." "Iss, faither; but uncle's a ancient man, an' I guessed he knawed so well as me, an' I reckoned 'twould be sauce for such as me to say anything to a auld, gray body like him."
There were tears in Mysie's eyes too, as she weakly sat down, unable to do anything else. She had recognized him as he approached, and had started up to get away; but he had also recognized her, and she was too late. "Hoo is my mither an' my faither?" she enquired, after a short silence, as she tried to recover herself.
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